Client sending Player no matter what

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for some reason everytime i fire a remote event and transfer a variable over to the server (EVEN IF ITS NOT PLAYER RELATED) it will always send a player variable instead of what i intended it to send over

Server 
RS.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Target)
	print(Target)
end)
Client (ignore the test variable) 
   TargetToHit = "pdspfpasdf"
script.RemoteEvent:FireServer(TargetToHit)
Aiming = false

this is really annoying, i dont know why it happens, i’ve tried everything and it still sends the player instead of the variable i wanted it to send

2

The Player that activated a RemoteEvent is always implicitly sent through as the first argument. The only change you’d need to make on the server is create a new parameter to reference any additional values being sent through:

RS.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, Target)
	print(Target)
end)
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it still keeps sending the player, no matter what i do, thats literally what i was doing originally

4

Theres no way to prevent this, its just part of the roblox API

The ability to change it would pose a huge security risk and be overcomplication of the API
You should just get in the habit of adding player as the first argument every time you use OnServerEvent or OnServerInvoke

5

thing is, its ignoring any additional values that i send and replacing it with the player

6

Just do what @StrongBigeMan9 said
Your arguments will be displaced by 1, so for example if you did:

Client

event:FireServer("Hello world",5)

You would have to do

Server

event.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player,text,num)
    print(player) --player
    print(text) --hello world
    print(num) --5
end)
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7

i could have sworn that you had to put the player on the fireserver event, thanks though

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8

the problem is, i cannot reference the first argument except as ‘self’, it silently shadows the real ‘self’, and displaces all other arguments’ indices by 1