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Making players each spawn at a different spawn plate?

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When a player joins the game, he spawns at a spawn location and then gets teleported onto one of the spawn plates. The spawn plates have a bool value which state if a player has taken a spawn plate or not. Once a player takes it, it will set a value in their PlayerGui to true. This works pretty well but sometimes two or three players might be teleported to the same plate. Also, sometimes the player doesn't get teleported at all and stays at the original spawn location. There are no errors.

	local takenPlates = {} -- empty table containing used plates
	takenPlates[1] = 0
	takenPlates[2] = 0
	takenPlates[3] = 0
	takenPlates[4] = 0
	takenPlates[5] = 0
	takenPlates[6] = 0
	takenPlates[7] = 0
	takenPlates[8] = 0
	takenPlates[9] = 0
	takenPlates[10] = 0
	takenPlates[11] = 0
	takenPlates[12] = 0
	takenPlates[13] = 0
	takenPlates[14] = 0
	takenPlates[15] = 0
	takenPlates[16] = 0
	takenPlates[17] = 0
	takenPlates[18] = 0
	takenPlates[19] = 0
	takenPlates[20] = 0
-- What you would need to do is create enough plates to accomodate a full server, so if a server holds 20 maximim plateyers, create 20 plates.

local platesModel = workspace.spawnPlates
for _,plr in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
	local num = math.random(1,20)
    local plate = platesModel["T"..num] --Pick random plate
	local p = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character
	print(num)
	
   	if num ~= takenPlates[num] then --Check that the selected plate is already taken
            --Code teleportation plr:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates["T"..num].Part.Position)
			print("Entered 1")	
			if num == 1 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T1.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 2 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T2.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 3 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T3.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 4 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T4.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 5 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T5.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 6 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T6.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 7 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T7.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 8 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T8.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 9 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T9.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 10 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T10.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 11 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T11.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 12 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T12.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 13 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T13.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 14 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T14.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 15 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T15.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 16 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T16.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 17 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T17.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 18 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T18.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 19 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T19.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 20 then
				p:MoveTo(workspace.spawnPlates.T20.Part.Position)
			end
            takenPlates[num] = num --Insert taken plate into table
        else
            repeat num = math.random(1,20) plate = platesModel["T"..num] wait() until plate ~= num -- Keep trying to find an available plate until one has been found
			--plr:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates["T"..num].Part.Position)           
			print("Entered 2")			
			if num == 1 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T1.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 2 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T2.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 3 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T3.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 4 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T4.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 5 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T5.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 6 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T6.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 7 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T7.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 8 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T8.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 9 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T9.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 10 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T10.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 11 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T11.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 12 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T12.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 13 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T13.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 14 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T14.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 15 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T15.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 16 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T16.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 17 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T17.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 18 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T18.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 19 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T19.Part.Position)
			end
			if num == 20 then
				p:MoveTo(game.Workspace.spawnPlates.T20.Part.Position)
			end
			
        end
    end

After a player is done customizing their character from the spawn plate and they hit spawn to teleport to the map, this code runs. It makes the boolean from their PlayerGui false.

game.Workspace:WaitForChild(game.Players.LocalPlayer.Name)
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:connect(function()
	if script.Parent.Value.Value == 1 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T1.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 2 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T2.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 3 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T3.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 4 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T4.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 5 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T5.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 6 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T6.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 7 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T7.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 8 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T8.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 9 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T9.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 10 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T10.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 11 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T11.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 12 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T12.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 13 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T13.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 14 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T14.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 15 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T15.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 16 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T16.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 17 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T17.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 18 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T18.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 19 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T19.Taken.Value = false
	elseif script.Parent.Value.Value == 20 then
		workspace.SpawnTowers.T20.Taken.Value = false
	end
AnonymousEdited

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✓ Accepted answer

Try assiging one spawn to each player.

-- Runs the function to assign a spawn to a player when they join

function assignSpawn(p)
	for i,v in pairs(game.Workspace.Spawns:GetChildren()) do
		if v.Name == "Unset" then
			v.Name = p.Name
		end
	end
end
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(assignSpawn)

-- Runs the restoration function for when the player leaves

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:connect(function(player)
    game.Workspace.Spawns:FindFirstChild(player.Name).Name = "Unset"
end)

That should go through every spawn point [stored in game.Workspace.Spawns, a folder, and named "Unset"] and finds one named Unset and claims it.

When the player leaves, this should rename the player's spawn to Unset, thus making it available again.

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