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How to count players ingame to check if the game should start?

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Kronidex 9
5 years ago 
while true do

    Status.Value = "Waiting for enough players"

    game.Players:GetPlayers()
    repeat wait(1) until Players >= 2

    Status.Value = "Intermission"

I know this is very wrong but this is deprecated

repeat wait() until game.Players.NumPlayers >= 2
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simple use: repeat wait(1) until #game.Players:GetPlayers() >= 2 yHasteeD 1819 — 5y
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ew no User#24403 69 — 5y

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Answered by
Cvieyra2test 176
5 years ago

In adaptation to yHasteeD's recommendation of: "you can simple use: repeat wait() until #game.Players:GetPlayers() >= 2"

Since that'd just run once and not account for a potential player drop (players leaving)

You could do:

local players = game.Players

function playerAdded()
    local plramount = #players:GetPlayers()
    if plramount>=2 then
        game()
    end
end
players.PlayerAdded:connect(playerAdded)

function game()
    -- game stuff here, make all functions in game end if #players:GetPlayers() < 2
end
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Answered by
pidgey 548 Moderation Voter
5 years ago

The function you're looking for is a function of Players called GetPlayers https://developer.roblox.com/api-reference/function/Players/GetPlayers

repeat wait() until game.Players:GetPlayers() >= 2
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Functions return values. The sentinel value of GetPlayers is the amount of players that are in the game. With that data, we can compare it. pidgey 548 — 5y
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#, your script will error User#24403 69 — 5y
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GetPlayers() returns a table of player instances, the number of players would be equal to the length of this table so the length operator '#' should be prepended to this table GoldAngelInDisguise 297 — 5y
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My bad. Don't know why I thought GetPlayers returned an integer. Exactly what Gold said. pidgey 548 — 5y
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Edit your answer to repeat wait() until #game.Players:GetPlayers() >= 2 yHasteeD 1819 — 5y
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Answered by
GentiRob -81
5 years ago 
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local PlayerCount = 0

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function()
    PlayerCount = PlayerCount + 1
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function()
    PlayerCount = PlayerCount - 1
end)

while PlayerCount < 1 do
    repeat wait(1) until PlayerCount >= 2
end
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You can simple use repeat wait(1) until #Players:GetPlayers() >= 2 yHasteeD 1819 — 5y
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Answered by
Cronizete 11
5 years ago

There are many ways of doing this but I just went with my method. Accept if this helped :)

local players = {}

function get_players()
    players = {}

    for _, a in pairs(game:service'Players':players'') do --// gets all players
        table.insert(players, a) --// inserts all player to the table 
    end

    return #players --// returns the count of players
end

repeat wait() until get_players() >= 2
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you can simple use: repeat wait() until #game.Players:GetPlayers() >= 2 yHasteeD 1819 — 5y

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