Anti-TK for multiple teams

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Hey there, I’ve looked at about 5 other posts related to this, but couldn’t find anything related quite exactly to what I want.

PROBLEM

I have about 8 teams in my game

local friends = {"US Military","Marines","Spec Ops","Secret Service","[DOS] Department of State","Congress","Military Police","Homeland Security","Department of Justice","[MED] Military Education Dept."}

The issue being, every way I’ve tried to approach this - it doesn’t seem to work.

if plr1.Team == Teams[friends] and Player.Team == Teams[friends] then

end

Those are the lines of codes relevant to this anti-teamkill script. Maybe I’ve been working on this so long I’m frankly braindead and just making things worst? This was implemented, we tested - and now nobody can be damaged.

GOAL:

“Friendly” teams cannot damage each other, but may damage raiders.
Raiders may damage “friendly” teams.

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2

You can use table.find

local friends = {"US Military","Marines","Spec Ops","Secret Service","[DOS] Department of State","Congress","Military Police","Homeland Security","Department of Justice","[MED] Military Education Dept."}

if table.find(friends, plr1.Team.Name) and table.find(friends, Player.Team.Name) then
print("friendly fire!")
end
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3

Tried both, essentially what I’m trying to do is make it so that if they shoot each other, it won’t kill the other player.

Tried it as plr1.Team.Name and plr1.Team - both failed to stop the teamkill - while allowing raiders to still kill allied teams.

4

What exactly are the variables Teams, friends, and plr1/Player?

6

Heres a basic framework

-- have a table of friendly teams
-- inside hit/damage function:

local canDamage = true

for _, team in friendlyTeams do
   if (playerThatGotHit.Team == team) then
      canDamage = false
   end
end

if (canDamage) then
   -- damage
end

basically, just have a table of friendly teams, and iterate through it to see if the person you hit is one of those teams. If so, then don’t damage them.

7

ok so, I really do apologize - I truly did overcomplicate things. I’m not sure if anybody can relate to that when you’ve been in studio too long.

This is what I ended up needing, and it works now:

		local allied = false
		if table.find(friends, plr1.Team.Name) and table.find(friends, Player.Team.Name) then
			allied = true
		end
		
		if plr1.Team ~= Player.Team and allied == false then
                    (damage dealing code)
                 end

thank you @CodedJack for helping w my lack of education w/ tables. Marked you as solution, because you truly guided me in the right direction here.

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8

Ahh just seen this, thank you as well!