Why does my "random player" not reset?
I have a problem, I am making a script which teleports a random player to a place, but the first time to random player gets selected, it never changes again, so its always the same person that gets teleported.
wait(15)
local Players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
local ob1 = workspace.Scorer.Orange_25.Touch
local ob2 = workspace.Scorer.Red_10.Touch
local ob3 = workspace.Scorer.Yellow_50.Touch
while true do
local Randomplayer = Players[math.random(1, #Players)]
print(Randomplayer)
Randomplayer.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(73, 98, 33)
wait(14.9)
if ob1.Value == false and ob2.Value == false and ob3.Value == false then
Randomplayer.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(66, 10, -287)
end
wait(0.1)
end
Help would be really appreciated, thank you. (Yes I did play the game with friends too.)
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try playing the game with "Friends" : ) spam the run button and you'll see the output change https://scriptinghelpers.org/lua#DYewxghsAEAKwQJ4FMBOBnaBeaBvAUNEdAETxJoCMJANIcWQiqgEwn4C+++ADqgJYA7AC4AKcs3QBtALYRhACwB0qCIIAmIGaMo1oAYglp0ASgC6JoA
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Variable Persistance
Variables do not change unless you reassign them. In this case, the variable Players does not update to the new players.
Here is an example:
-- Player1 joins
local plrs = game.Players:GetPlayers()
print(plrs) --> {Player1}
-- Player2 joins
print(plrs) --> {Player1}
plrs= game.Players:GetPlayers()
print(plrs) --> {Player1, Player2}
As you can see, plrs will always hold Player1 and not include Player2 until plrs is re-assigned to the new list of players.
Solution
You should update the Players variable to get all the current players before attempting to select a random player.
-- since :GetPlayers() is a table itself, you can call it like this
local Randomplayer = game.Players:GetPlayers()[math.random(1, #game.Players:GetPlayers())]
-- you can also update the variable before using it
local Players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
while true do
Players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
local Randomplayer = Players[math.random(1, #Players)]
end
Good luck!