Attempt to index nil with money, only happens in Local Server

[Ransomwavee (Ransomwave)]

This is because the script is attempting to find Money in an instance that is nil, which turns out to be leaderstats. Try waiting for the player’s character or do game.Loaded:Wait() at the top to see if it helps.

Another great trick, always set the attributes of an instance first before setting its parent, that way it’s more efficient.

-- Bad practice, setting parent before setting attributes meaning server has to connect and fire additonal events.
local Money = Instance.new("NumberValue",leaderstats)
Money.Name = "Money"
Money.Value = result.Money

-- Good practice, mitigates any unnecessary steps the server has to take.
local Money = Instance.new("NumberValue")
Money.Name = "Money"
Money.Value = result.Money
Money.Parent = leaderstats

PSA: Don't use Instance.new() with parent argument

I’ve discovered a pretty bad performance issue in one of top games that has to do with Instance.new and wanted to write about this, since this is not obvious unless you know the system inside out. Tthere are several ways to create a ROBLOX object in Lua: local obj = Instance.new(‘type’); fill obj fields local obj = Instance.new(‘type’, parent); fill obj fields local obj = util.Create(‘type’, { field1 = value1, … }) If you care at all about performance, please only use the first option - I wi…