Data being lost when sending a table through a remote event

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I’ve been working on a lobby system using remote events, and there is a problem where when I send a table of the current players in the hosts lobby, through a remote event, some players are removed from that table for whatever reason.

This is the code that is run on the client:

	local players = {}
	local playerSpawnNums = {}
	for i, v in pairs(game.Workspace.PlayerSpawn:GetChildren()) do
		if v:isA("BasePart") then
			for b, c in pairs(v:GetChildren()) do
				if c.ClassName == "Model" then
					table.insert(players, #players, c)
					table.insert(playerSpawnNums, #playerSpawnNums, v.Name)
				end
			end
		end
	end
	game.ReplicatedStorage.PlayerList.Join3:FireServer(players, playerSpawnNums, player)

And this is the code where the server recieves that array:

game.ReplicatedStorage.PlayerList.Join3.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, players, playerSpawnNums, ogPlayer)
        --the "players" variable is the table of the players
	game.ReplicatedStorage.PlayerList.Join4:FireClient(ogPlayer, players, playerSpawnNums, player)
end)

This is the tables results from the client:
client

This is the tables results from the server:
server

(Sorry if its obvious or something, im relatively new to lua)

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Can u just print out “players” table

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Thanks for the reply. The pictures above are what happened when I printed out the table.

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game.ReplicatedStorage.PlayerList.Join3:FireServer(players, playerSpawnNums, player)

You don’t need to send over player, unless that’s not the player.

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The “player” variable is basically the player that is joining the lobby, so it’s needed later on in the code.

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I am not sure if that helps but this part is atleast for me looking kinda weird:

table.insert(players, #players, c)

lets look at the table:

local players = {}

#players would be equal to 0. But in lua the first index is 1 so that means index of 0 doesnt actually exists.
It is recommended to do one of those two options:

table.insert(players, #players + 1, c)
--or
players[#players + 1] = c
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thank you so much man, i couldnt figure out why it wasnt working, you mightve just saved our game!! !!! thank you !! !!!

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