How To Randomly Choose a Player W/ Increased Chance For Gamepass Holders?

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#1

I’m trying to make a political simulation game. I understand how to randomly select/call a player out of all online players. However, I want to increase the chances of a player being chosen whether from a gamepass or whatnot (possibly being in a group or on an admin list also).

Is it possible to somehow combine the total player list with a special list to double the chances for certain players? If so how’d I go about doing that?

Here’s an older post I’ve been using to randomly select a player:

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#2

The best way to do this that I can think of off the top of my head would just be storing all the players you have to pick from within a table and adding multiple entries if they own a gamepads that gives them a higher chance. I don’t believe it’s possible to weight the results when getting it from Players:GetPlayers().

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#3

Do you have any posts you recommend on creating tables and how I’d go about adding active players to it?

#4

Something like this should help

local function SelectAUser(Querylist)
    local SelectionArray = {};
        for _,g in pairs(Querylist)do
            table.insert(SelectionArray, g);
                if(PlayerMeetsCondition)then
                    table.insert(SelectionArray,g);
                end;
        end;
return SelectionArray[math.random(1,#SelectionArray)];
end;

--//
local User = SelectAUser(game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayers());
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#5

I’ll write some pseudocode.

local selectablePlayers = {}

PlayerAdded(plr)
    if userOwnsPass() then
          table.insert(selectablePlayers, plr)
    end

    table.insert(selectablePlayers,plr)
end

Then just pick your player out of that table using some of the code from above.

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