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How to select players in a rotation?

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Currently my method is straight up math.random and that leads to multiple same player selects and that's seems to unfair to me.

local canid = {}
	for i,v in pairs(game.ReplicatedStorage.PlayerInfo:GetChildren()) do
		table.insert(canid, v.Name)
		v.PersonType.Value = "Survivor"
	end
	local hunter = canid[math.random(#canid)]
	game.ReplicatedStorage.PlayerInfo.PlayerHolder:FindFirstChild(hunter).PersonType.Value = "Hunter"

What I'm looking for is a way to select all players in a rotation. That way everyone has a chance to play as the Hunter. Is there any way to make that in lua?

Anonymous

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Add the players to a table once they are selected

Anonymous#
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My script is on an constant loop so I'm not sure how that would help?

Anonymous#

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local alreadySelected = {}

-- I wrote a function for you to check if the player was already selected:

function check(player)
	for i,v in pairs(alreadySelected) do
		if v == player then
			return true
		end
	end
end

-- now when selecting a hunter you will do

if check(plr.Name) then
	-- rechoose because player was already selected this rotation
else
	table.insert(alreadySelected, plr.Name)
	-- make player hunter
end

now to know and reset the table when everyone has been a hunter you can just do

if #Players == #alreadySelected then
	alreadySelected = {} -- this sets the table empty again
	-- start rolling hunter again
end

You'll also want to have a playerLeaving function and use table.remove() to remove the player from the table if he is in it, if you don't do this then if #Players == #alreadySelected then will bug out and your table will never reset! If this helped, please mark this as the answer

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