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Having troubles awarding currency...?

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I'm making a game and gold is the currency. I want to make NPC's that if you kill you will be awarded a certain amount of gold. I currently don't have the knowledge to do this, all I have is this script:

amnt = 50000
function onTouched(part)
	local h = part.Parent:findFirstChild("Humanoid")
	if (h~=nil) then
		local thisplr = game.Players:findFirstChild(h.Parent.Name)
		if (thisplr~=nil) then
			local stats = thisplr:findFirstChild("leaderstats")
			if (stats~=nil) then
				local score = stats:findFirstChild("Gold")
				if (score~=nil) then
					score.Value = score.Value + amnt
				end
			end
		end
		script.Parent:remove()
	end
end

script.Parent.Touched:connect(onTouched)

I am a extreme newbie to Lua so I tried taking the easy way out and just making it so if you touch the NPC then it will award you the gold; but that causes many problems. Could anyone help me? Greatly appreciated.

Anonymous

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Put an ObjectValue inside of the NPC model. I named the value "Attacker". Every time that the NPC is attacked change the ObjectValue to the attacker. Then using the Died event of the Humanoid. Just award the person inside of the Objectvalue the points.

This would be located in the character model

local Amount = ???

local Dead = false
local Char = script.Parent
local Attacker = Instance.new("ObjectValue",Char)
Attacker.Name = "Attacker"

function WhenTouched(Part)
	if Part:IsA("Part") and Part.Parent:IsA("Tool") then
		--This is executed when a sword hits him
		if not Dead then
			Attacker.Value = Game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Part.Parent.Parent)
		end
	end
end


function Respawn()
	--Respawn here
	Dead = false
end

Char.Humanoid.Died:connect(function()
	Dead = true
	Attacker.Value.leaderstats.Gold = Attacker.Value.leaderstats.Gold + Amount
	Respawn()
end)

for _,n in pairs(Char:GetChildren()) do
	if n:IsA("Part") then
		n.Touched:connect(WhenTouched)
			 --Fire WhenTouched whenever any part of the character is touched.
	end
end
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