Adding players to a table

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#1

So I’m creating this teleport system where I need to teleport a specific players to a new server using TeleportToPrivateServer, I have that set up but I need help with scripting this:
So what I am trying to achieve is adding players to a table, via touch connect block then using the table to teleport players to the private server, how would I go about creating the table and adding players to the table?

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#2

A bunch of ways you can go about this, but I would do the following.

First, create an empty table of players you want to teleport:

local PlayersToTeleport = {}

When a player touches the specific part, add them to the table.

TouchBrick.Touched:Connect(function(TouchedPart)
	if TouchedPart.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
		local Character = TouchedPart.Parent
		local Player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Character)
		local AlreadyInTable = false
		-- Now make sure the player isn't already in the array
		for _,OtherPlayer in next,PlayersToTeleport do
			if OtherPlayer == Player then
				AlreadyInTable = true
			end
		end
		if not AlreadyInTable then
		-- Add them to the array!
		table.insert(PlayersToTeleport,Player)
		end
	end
end)

Now just simply use TeleportToPrivateServer using that array as the proper argument.

Let me know if you have any questions.

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#3

Thank you so much for this, I will try it out! Another question, how would I remove a player from a table say that they didn’t want to teleport with the group anymore? I’m doing this through an onserverevent function.

Also correct me if I am wrong but this how I would use the array for the teleport service yes?
TeleportService:TeleportToPrivateServer(1234567890,code,PlayersToTeleport)

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#4

I’m on mobile but I’ll do the best I can to explain. First off, yes that’s how you use the teleport service as long as “code” is the reserved server access code returned by TeleportService:ReserveServer.

To remove a player from the array you need to first find the key that the player is stored in and then use table.remove, like so:

for Key,Player in next,PlayersToTeleport do
     if Player == PlayerToRemove then
          table.remove(PlayersToTeleport,Key)
          break
     end
end
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#5

Thank you to @korky5000 for providing me with this piece of code to add players to a table, it successfully worked in teleporting the people in the table via teleport service. Thank you again.
If there are any more suggestions or feedback, i’d be glad to hear about it!

#6

Also just to confirm, if a player leaves while they are in the table, will this break anything with the teleport service or the script?

Checking if player is in game
#7

I’m not sure, it’s probably best practice to just remove them from the table when they leave the game.

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(Player)
     for Key,OtherPlayer in next,PlayersToTeleport do
          if OtherPlayer == Player then
               table.remove(PlayersToTeleport,Key)
               break
          end
     end
end)
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