How to see if the ChosenPlayer is the Player

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1

I’m making this bounty system for a game. When the player goes up to an npc and interacts with it, it chooses a random player in the server to be the “target”. I don’t want it to chose the player itself tho.

	local Players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
	local nplrs = #Players
	local Randomplayer = nil	
	
	repeat
		wait(0.01)
		
		if nplrs > 0 then
			Randomplayer = Players[math.random(1, nplrs)]
		end
		
		print(Randomplayer)
		
	until Randomplayer ~= Player.Name
	
	print(Randomplayer)
	
	return Randomplayer

This is just part of the script.

2

Instead of doing that, just do. This works, tested it myself.


local Players = game.Players:GetPlayers() 
local PlayerToRemove = PlayerINSTANCE --game.Players.PlayerName
table.remove(Players, table.find(Players,PlayerToRemove)) 

local PlayerToChoose = Players[math.random(1,#Players)] --Only work if there is more than one player.
print(PlayerToChoose)

Also, what’s the error, there doesn’t seem to be an issue with the script.

3

The error is that Randomplayer ~= Player.Name dosen’t work.

4

Randomplayer is probably a player, while Player.Name is a string representing the player’s name. Instead, try doing Randomplayer ~= Player