How do I get the amount of players playing my game?

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#1

how do i get the value of the TOTAL playercount of my game using HttpService?

I’ve tried using the api stuff but did not figure it out. any advice?

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#2

i think you can just use the playerservice.PlayerAdded event and get the number of players

local numplayers = 0
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function()
numplayers+=1
end)
game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function()
if numplayers~=0 then numplayers-=1 end
end)

i guess…

Edit: my bad sorry that only counts the player count in one server

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#3

This wouldn’t be the total player count, this would only be the players in the current server. She wants the total player count in all the servers.

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#4 
local players = game.Players:GetPlayers() -- Get all the players in the server.
local amt = #players -- get the amount of the players ( in number )
print(amt) -- Prints the amount

lets say there are 5 player in the server so the output will be:
5 because we print the amount of the players in the current server.

To make it in one line you can try this:
print(#game.Players:GetPlayers())

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#5

I think she wants the number of players in EVERY server.

#7

no, i don’t think so. they maybe want for the current server…

#9

for ingame leaderboard stuff, Live player counter(probably)

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#10

Thanks for clarifying. :sweat_smile:

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#11

You would need to communicate along the servers.
I made something like that when I learned about MessagingService. I think you could also do this with HTTPService.

local MessagingService = game:GetService("MessagingService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local totalPlayerCount = 0

local function onReceive(msg)
    totalPlayerCount += msg.Data
end

MessagingService:SubscribeAsync("PlayerCount", onReceive)

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function()
    --Subscribe to the topic to portray the amount of players in the game
    --Tell all servers that a player joined
    MessagingService:PublishAsync("PlayerCount", 1)
end)

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function()
    --Tell all servers to remove one player
    MessagingService:PublishAsync("PlayerCount", -1)
end)

while true do
    wait(1)
    print("The total player count is " .. totalPlayerCount)
end

Replace the while true do loop with something better, I just did this for testing out MessagingService.

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#12

thank you. this solved my problem

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#13

Recommendation: if you were to try and get the number of players don’t do that. It’s harder and less efficient, instead do #game.Players:GetPlayers()

Putting a # on the BEGGINING of it gives you the amount of data inside a table.

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#14

You could also use this messaging service and send a request to all servers to return the amount of players inside each one, then calculate all those values; since a system like this could break after some time.

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#15

Yes. This is much more reliable and efficient. In case for example a server shuts down unexpectedly, using the previously shown method would invalidate the count.

Not only that, but using that previously shown method would mean each new server starts a count from 0, and would give an incorrect result.

(This also means there is a possibility for the count to go below 0.)

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