[Xubera]

well make sure its saving correctly

in your toc you need ##SavedVariables: or ##SavedVariablesPerCharacter:


and you dont have to save them, they are just active

you could have a addon that said

if event == "VARIABLES_LOADED" then
  myAddonDB.timesLoggedIn = myAddonDB.timesLoggedIn + 1
end

and be done with it.

also make sure that you know that

local table1, table2 = {1,2,3}, {4,5,6}
table1 = table2
wipe(table2)
for k,v in ipairs(table1) do
    print(k,v)
end

will output noting because when you set a table equal to another table, you dont add the values or set the values equal to each other, you save the reference pointer to the table.

Another thing is that your saved variables dont have to be tables, you could have MyAddonTimesLogged, MyAddonTimesDied and just have 2 numeric values.