setElementData - Every Second

[Controlled]

Would it be laggy to setElementData every second?

I need a way for a number to be updated every second and carried over to another resource, but be bound to a single person if that makes sense.

[TrapLord Studios™]

use a database that stores the information and the other resource wousld just fetch from the db.

[Controlled]

Using SQL queries would be waaaay worst. Much more laggy

[TrapLord Studios™]

Are you certain ? , maybe tables then?

[myonlake]

Tables are the answer. However, keep in mind that these two are located in two different areas of the application.

[Citizen]

Would it be laggy to setElementData every second?

No it won't, element datas are really powerfull.

By the way, if you want to store the current play time of the player, I would use only one setElementData that will store the result of getTickCount().

Then when you want to know how many seconds the player is in:

local tick = getTickCount() 
local joinTick = getElementData(thePlayer, "joinTick") or 0 
local secondsIn = (tick - joinTick) / 1000 

Do as you would like.

[myonlake]

Would it be laggy to setElementData every second?

No it won't, element datas are really powerfull.

Indeed. The main reason for that is that element data isn't going thru the Lua VM, but the core, so it should be considered as a more native feature. Depends on the usage though, sometimes tables are far better than element data.

[Controlled]

How could I use a Table to write a new Number Value but have it readable across resources?

[WhoAmI]

In this case element data would be better.

[Spajk]

How could I use a Table to write a new Number Value but have it readable across resources?

Using exported functions.

[pa3ck]

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