Keeping players in jail after attempt to rejoin

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Hi everyone,

I am creating an arrest tool for my city project, but I need to know if there is a simple function in a script to teleport a player back into the ‘Incarcerated’ team after they rejoin the server during their jail time. I am asking for this because rejoining the server is a common way to break out of jail. Thanks!

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I only know a way for it to save in a single server which would be store a table of in-jail players, when they leave, their timer stops. You could probably datstore this and get a system game-wide.

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How could I do that?

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Store a simple table, like local jailed = {}, use table.insert and table.remove , as well as datastores.

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I know the tables but I’m not fully sure on how to fully code it.

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local players = game:GetService("Players")
local jailed = {}

--Jail function
local function jailPlayer(player)
	player.TeamColor = BrickColor.new("Bright violet")
	player:LoadCharacter()
end

--Jail player
jailed[player.Name] = true
jailPlayer(player)

--Unjail player
jailed[player.Name] = nil

--Check if player jailed when entering the game
players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	if jailed[player.Name] then
		jailPlayer(player)
	end
end)
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Wait-

Do you want this to only work if they join the same server or if they join any server?

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Any server )random text)

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You will need to use a datastore.

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Okie (random text) loll

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Do you know how to do that?

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No oof (random text)

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Your going to want to use the StarterGUI for local scripts, SSS for your main scripts and the ReplicatedStorage to store everything in.

I feel I’m right, tell me if not :joy:

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Pretty sure your correct but I don’t know what in the world to type

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So basically, I need to go to bed, but I will try to get a script tomorrow.

But essentially what you need to do, is when a function is called, add the players User Id to a database, then when they join they will be tested to see if they are in that database & if so, they are teleported to inside a prision.

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