How to have the share table with server and local script

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In short, I have a table that contains all players, if someone dies then they are removed. I have a life system, so if they die and they are not on 0 lives then they do not get removed.

I have a intvalue called “LivesCount” and it stores how many lives does a player have. If I put:

if Lives.Value == 0 then
   -- die script
end

on a server script then that means everyone’s lives has to be 0 to make the code work, so I transferred the table to local script via remote event. It works, but the problem is that whenever I remove the player in the table with the local script, it wouldn’t be applied to the server script (I won’t be talking on why I need it on a server script now because it would be kinda long and hard to explain).

I’m a missing something here? Or is there a much simpler way to do this? Please help me with my problem and I would be forever grateful.

Here’s the code I have currently:
Server script:

for x, player in pairs (plrs) do
				if player then

					character = player.Character

					if not character then
						-- Left the game
						table.remove(plrs, x)
					else
						if character:FindFirstChild("GameTag") then
							-- They are still alive
							print(player.Name.. "is still in the game!")
						else
							-- They are dead lol
							game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("LivesButThisTimeItWillWok"):FireClient(player, plrs, x)
							print(plrs)
						end
					end
				else
					table.remove(plrs, x)
					player.Team = game.Teams["Not Playing"]
					print(player.Name.." has been removed!")
				end

Focus on the “they are dead lol” part of script

Local script:

game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("LivesButThisTimeItWillWok").OnClientEvent:Connect(function(plrs, x)
	if LivesCount.Value == 0 then
		table.remove(plrs, x)
		player.Team = game.Teams["Not Playing"]
		print("removed?")
	else
		print("Life not 0")
	end
end)

Thank you for reading

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I think events would be good for getting and transferring data.

3

I did that already, but for me remote event does not work for me

4

Do you still have the previous code that you used for the remotes?

5

Where did you define ‘plrs’ table from? May I see the previous line of the code

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i defined the “plrs” table from the server script

Here’s a code of it:

local plrs = {}

	for i, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
		if player then
			table.insert(plrs,player) -- Adds Players in the table
		end
	end
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I’m not sure if this is a related thing for me to say, but doesn’t this only get the players once?

8

Well here’s the thing. You are basically passing plrs table info to the client as a new variable. You can’t change (remove in this case) what’s inside it from the client.

You would have to use RemoteFunction to do changes from the server.

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ah ok, I completely forgotten about remote functions

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Code example:

Server:

local LivesButThisTimeItWillWork = -- make this a remote function
local resultOfCheck = LivesButtThisTimeItWillWork:InvokeClient(player, plrs, x)
if resultOfCheck == true then -- checks if the returned value was true
	table.remove(plrs, x) -- remove the plr here from the server
end

Client:

LivesButThisTimeItWillWork.OnClientInvoke = function(plrs, x)
	if LivesCount.Value == 0 then
		-- still do your stuff here but no need to remove the plr from plrs table yet
		return true -- returns true value
	else
		print("Life not 0")
	end
end)
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Check CKScripts’ reply about RemoteFunctions. Provided you with an example as well.

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Thanks! I’ve been working on my live system for a couple of days now and now it works :slight_smile:

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