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Assigning Points to All Players with an OnTouched Script?

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Hiya! I'm IwuvPikachu and I absolutely suck at scripting. But hey, everyone has to start somewhere... anyways, here's my question:

I'm trying to script a block so that whenever it is touched by another block, it gives a point to everyone on the server.

Here's what my feeble coding ability could come up with:

function onTouched(hit)
	if hit.Name == "Part" then
		local players = game.Players:GetChildren()
		local stats = players:findFirstChild("leaderstats") 
		if stats ~= nil then 
			local Points = stats:findFirstChild("Points") 
			Points.Value  = Points.Value +1
	end
end
script.Parent.Touched:Connect(onTouched)

As you can probably tell, it doesn't work. If you could please point me toward the right method to write this, you would make my day!

I understand that this script will only work if the brick that touches it is explicitly named "Part", and that is okay. If I had to guess, I would say my problem lies in telling the script to add a point to all players on the server? But I'm not sure. Again, thank you in advance for your help!

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Goodness, that script did not copypaste well. Let me try to fix that for easier reading ^-^"

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The first is a simple debounce locked to the part in which you're touching. The second is a debounce attached to any player that touches the brick. If you don't want a debounce at all, you can remove it. 

local players = game:GetService('Players')
local debounce = true
local debounceTime = 10
-- Every 10 seconds, we're allowed to touch the brick
local points_to_give = 1

local function giveeveryone(points)
	for i,v in pairs(players:GetPlayers()) do 
		local ls = v:findFirstChild("leaderstats")
		if ls then 
			local pointsValue = ls:findFirstChild("Points")
			if pointsValue then 
				pointsValue.Value = pointsValue.Value + points
			end
		end
	end
end

function onTouched(hit)
	local player = players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
	-- Gets the player from the part that was touched
	if player then
		if debounce then 
			debounce = false
			giveeveryone(points_to_give)
			wait(debounceTime)
			debounce = true
		end
	end
end

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(onTouched)


local players = game:GetService('Players')
local debounce = {}
-- A debounce is used so we don't spam the points given to the player
-- A table is used so we can use a debounce on the player 
local debounceTime = 10
-- Every 10 seconds, we're allowed to get points
local points_to_give = 1


local function giveeveryone(points)
	for i,v in pairs(players:GetPlayers()) do 
		local ls = v:findFirstChild("leaderstats")
		if ls then 
			local pointsValue = ls:findFirstChild("Points")
			if pointsValue then 
				pointsValue.Value = pointsValue.Value + points
			end
		end
	end
end

function onTouched(hit)
	local player = players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
	-- Gets the player from the part that was touched
	if player then
		local lastTouched = debounce[player.Name]
		-- Checks to see if we have touched the brick before
		if lastTouched and tick() - lastTouched > debounceTime or not lastTouched then
			-- Checks when we have touched the brick last 
			-- Checks to see if we touched it more than debounceTime ago
			-- Also runs if we haven't touched the brick before
			giveeveryone(points_to_give)
			debounce[player.Name] = tick()
			-- reset the last time we touched the brick to now
		elseif tick() - lastTouched < debounceTime then
			-- Runs if we tried to touch the brick before 
				-- the alotted debounceTime time
			-- Tells us when we can touch it again
			print( string.format("You need to wait %s seconds before touching the brick again.", math.floor( debounceTime - (tick() - lastTouched) )))
			-- replace %s with the time we have to wait
		end
	end
end

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(onTouched)
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You are my savior. Thank you so much.

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