LocalScript in StarterCharacterScripts not working on server?

The script below works when testing locally in studio, but fails to work when tested on a server. For the life of me I can't figure out why, I figured I'd ask here because it's probably something small that I overlooked.

sidenote: excuse all the prints, i tried using them to debug to no avail

local replicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local equipToolEvent = replicatedStorage:FindFirstChild("EquipToolEvent")

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
player:WaitForChild("Backpack")
local humanoid = game.Workspace:WaitForChild(player.Name):WaitForChild("Humanoid")
wait(2.5)

function getWeapons()
	local backpack = player.Backpack
	if backpack then
		print("backpack")
		local weapons = {}
		for _, weapon in pairs(backpack:GetChildren()) do
			print("getting " .. weapon.Name)
			table.insert(weapons, weapon)
		end	
		return weapons
	else
		print("!backpack")
	end
end

function getBestWeapon(weapons)
	if weapons then
		print("weapons")
		local bestWeapon
		for _, weapon in pairs(weapons) do
			print(weapon.Name)
			if bestWeapon then
				if weapon.Values.Damage.Value > bestWeapon.Values.Damage.Value then
					bestWeapon = weapon
				end
			else
				bestWeapon = weapon
			end
		end
		return bestWeapon
	else
		print("!weapons")
	end
end

local weapons = getWeapons()
local bestWeapon = getBestWeapon(weapons)
if bestWeapon then
	equipToolEvent:FireServer(bestWeapon.Name)
else
	print("!bestWeapon")
end

Ah, I see what you did I think :P

you have:

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer

which is typically used in local scripts, but when using StarterCharacterScripts, the scripts and local scripts go inside the character, so I would do this:

local character = script.Parent
local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(character)

the rest of your script looks good, I might have not caught on to a mistake, I don't know. Hopefully I fixed your problem.

Heh, -Jo_Bot

The problem was that I wasn't waiting for the backpack to get filled with tools. So to fix that I added the following code after line 10.

	while #backpack:GetChildren() == 0 do
		wait()
	end