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Why isn't this Number Value right?

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I have a number value inside a TextLabel, and the TextLabel is supposed to tell the player how many people are on the server. i wasn't sure how to go about this so I tried this:

The script inside the Value:

plr = game.Players:GetPlayers()

game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function()
	script.Parent.Value = plr
	return #plr
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:connect(function()
	script.Parent.Value = plr
	return #plr
end)

The Value is 0 in the PlayerGui

the script inside the TextLabel:

script.Parent.Text = "Players Online\n".. script.Parent:WaitForChild("Value").Value

script.Parent:WaitForChild("Value").Changed:connect(function()
	script.Parent.Text = "Players Online\n".. script.Parent.Value.Value
end)

There is nothing in output, and nothing in that F9 thing. The TextLabel says

Players Online 0

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2 comments

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Use an IntValue instead! When you use a NumberValue, things can get really weird, really fast. Your 10 that you just saved to the NumberValue could be 10.0000007 or something like that. IntValues can only hold whole numbers.

Anonymous#
0

http://www.roblox.com/games/197480972/more-testing still didn't work. The thing is, there is no number in the number value, just a 0.

Anonymous#

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There are two ways to find the number of players in a server.

The first:

--localscript inside StarterGui
local players=script.Parent.Parent.Parent:GetChildren() --make sure you have enough .Parent's to get a table of everything inside of Players
--script.Parent.Parent... ... until the script is looking at PlayerGui  then add .Parent.Parent to that.
--Stuff>PlayerGui>Player>Players

--#players is the number of players in the server

The second:

game.Players.NumPlayers --read-only property telling how many players per server

You don't need a value at all, and you also only need only 1 script

script.Parent.Text = "Players Online\n".. script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.NumPlayers --you might have to adjust the amount of .Parent's

If you want it to change each time a player joins or leaves:

function Update()
script.Parent.Text = "Players Online\n".. script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.NumPlayers --you might have to adjust the amount of .Parent's
end

script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.ChildAdded:connect(Update)
script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.ChildRemoved:connect(Update)
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