How to make it check if there are 2 or more players to start the round

[thebookworm89]

Hi! Recently, I have been making a round system script for my game, but I have run into an issue. The code I have created only checks if there is less than 2 players once as soon as a player joins the game.

The screenshot above shows what my problem is. It only checks if there is 2 players one time and nothing else. I’ve tried rewriting my script, look at some tutorials, and looked on the Developer Hub. My code is shown below:

-- / VARIABLES /

local IntermissionTimer = 30
local RoundTimer = 300
local RS = game:WaitForChild("ReplicatedStorage")
local MapsFolder = RS.Maps:GetChildren()
local Players = game.Players:GetChildren()
local RoundActive = script.RoundActive
local RoundStatus = script.RoundStatus

-- / CODE /

while true do
	
	if #Players < 2 then -- My attempt on making it check if there are less than 2 players
		while true do
			RoundStatus.Value = "Not enough players, requirement 2!"
			return
		end
	end
	
	for i = 10, 0, -1 do
		RoundStatus.Value = "Intermission "..i
		task.wait(1)
	end
	
	local RNGMap = MapsFolder[math.random(1, #MapsFolder)]
	local MapChosen = RNGMap:Clone()

	MapChosen.Parent = game.Workspace
	RoundStatus.Value = "Map Chosen: "..MapChosen.Name
	
	task.wait(3)
	
	for i, Player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
		
		local Character = Player.Character
		
		if Player.PlayerScripts.IsPlaying == false then
			print("Not Playing")
		else
			if Character then
				local HumRootPart = Character.HumanoidRootPart
				
				HumRootPart.Position = MapChosen.TeleportPoint.Position
			end
		end
		
	end
	
	for i = 300, 0, -1 do
		RoundStatus.Value = "Game: "..i
		task.wait(1)
	end
	
	for i, Player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do

		local Character = Player.Character

		if Character then

			local HumRootPart = Character.HumanoidRootPart

			HumRootPart.Position = Vector3.new(5.76, 77.4, -25.73)
		end

	end
end

[Star_Scriptz (anxiety_star)]

Two things.
One you are never refreshing your Players variable, it is always staying constantly 0 I believe.

Fix this by doing

local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()

notice how I did GetPlayers instead of GetChildren that is the second thing, depends if anything gets inside the players in game then that’s bad so just do getplayers.

hope this helps!!!

[Star_Scriptz (anxiety_star)]

Please

	if #Players < 2 then -- My attempt on making it check if there are less than 2 players
		while true do
			RoundStatus.Value = "Not enough players, requirement 2!"
			return
		end
	end

This isn’t the best thing
It could be optimised but eh.
try this

while task.wait(0.1) do
     Players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
     if #Players < 2 then RoundStatus.Value = "Not enough players, requirement 2! else break end
end

[TheFlamingGamerX (green)]

You can use the game:GetService(“Players”).PlayerAdded event to detect when a player joins.

If you want the game to continuously loop then you can turn your code into a function and call that function whenever a player joins. Then you’d have to check if #game:GetService(“Players”):GetPlayers() gives 2+ players.

You’d also have to make sure that whenever a player joins a round isn’t already in progress. Then whenever you wanna start a new round, you can just call that function again.

[thebookworm89]

Thanks for the tip, it worked!