Attempt to compare Number and Instance

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#1

I’m making a system to teleport the players to the map in my game, and the maximum number of players needed to start a game is 2. Every time I run the game, an error appears in the Output “attempt to compare number and instance”, and this is giving error on line 8
"if game.Players >= NeededPlayers then"
Here is my script.

local MapsFolder = ServerStorage:FindFirstChild("Maps")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local GameHandler = ReplicatedStorage.StringValues:FindFirstChild("GameHandler")
local PickRandomMap = math.random(1)
local NeededPlayers = 2

if game.Players >= NeededPlayers then
	for i = 10, -1 do
		GameHandler.Value = "Intermission! "..i
		wait(10)
		GameHandler.Value = "Selecting map..."
		if PickRandomMap == 1 then
			MapsFolder.Isle:Clone().Parent = workspace
		end
		wait(5)
		GameHandler.Value = "Teleporting players..."
	end
end

Thank you in advance!

#2

Change game.Players to #game.Players:GetPlayers()

Reason: game.Players is a service, think of it as a folder for players. game.Players:GetPlayers() returns a table. Put a # in front of a table to get how many values are in it

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#3

Try using GetPlayers loop instead using game.Players (you aslo can use GetChildren)

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#4 
if (#game.Players.GetPlayers(game.Players) >= NeededPlayers) then
    -- code
end

Effectively GetPlayers(DataModel::Players this) is just the same as GetChildren(Instance<PlayersService> this), the difference is, Instead of returning an array of List<Instance<unknown>>, it will return an array of the following: List<Instance<Player>>.
Summary:

std::List<RBX::Instance<RBX::Instance.Any>> RBX::Instance::GetChildren(RBX::Instance<RBX::Instance.Any> this) {};
std::List<RBX::Instance<RBX::Player>> RBX::Instance<RBX::Players>::GetPlayers(RBX::Instance<RBX::Players> this) {}
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#5

Thank you very much, I was stuck in this for half an hour. LoL

#6

Thank you so much, I was stuck in this for half an hour!