Have you considered adding a dashboard tool that would allow modifying values in the database, like changing the amount of coins a player has for example? There would be lots of uses for this for customer support, developer testing etc..

For player support tooling, we really recommend using [SynchronizedServerActions](https://docs.metaplay.io/game-logic/how-to-guides/updating-player-model-from-the-server.html#synchronized-serveraction) and adding them to the [Admin actions section on the player's page](https://docs.metaplay.io/liveops-dashboard/how-to-guides/customizing-the-liveops-dashboard-frontend.html#add-custom-components). This has the benefit of being similar to a PlayerAction, it's deterministic, allows you to do validation easily, allows the player to be online while modifications happen. Idler also has an example of doing this. Another option is to use [Player Mails ](https://docs.metaplay.io/feature-cookbooks/in-game-mail-and-broadcasts/implementing-in-game-mail.html) and [MetaRewards](https://docs.metaplay.io/game-logic/utilities/implementing-metarewards.html). Directly editing the database/serialized models is inherently risky, notably there's limited/lacking validation (this has to be user land because use cases are so varied). In my eyes this is a power-user tool that shouldn't be used day to day and ideally not in production. We have in the past discussed a tool for fixing up/batch editing player models and/or one-off code execution (i.e. upload from dashboard and execute), but it's currently not on the roadmap. I'll forward your suggestion to the team again.

thanks, yeah your points about making sure that there's validation etc. do make sense. thank you anyways, and thanks for the pointers to where we could add this ourselves

i made a bit fancy version for one of our entities, which shows the current data in the entity and then allows modifying it .. that's a server only entity so done with akka messaging but anyway