How would I get the amount of players in a place within a game?

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#1

I develop a game where it has many different places within the game that you teleport to, and on the menu of the game, I want to list the number of players in each place.

I am not sure how I would perform this, as I don’t know a function or anything I could use to get the player amount in the specific place within the game. I heard about proxies, but I don’t know how I would use them

If anyone knows a good solution, a reply would be appreciated

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#2

You could add a player counter where everytime a player join a place it adds 1 and when a player leaves, it substracts 1. You then make a gui that displays that counter.

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#3

I suggest using https://games.roblox.com/docs#!/Games/get_v1_games_placeId_servers_serverType (the /v1/games/{placeId}/servers/{serverType} part) basically you can use a proxy like https://rprxy.xyz/ or your own and send a request to this API for a specific place and server type
this API returns a table with each server and the amount of players it has(and other useful info like max players)
but before using this method I suggest watching some tutorials about Roblox Http requests and how they work.

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#4

But how would you track if someone leaves one of the places

#5

Try this:
Once the player enters the game a BooleanValue enters his body.
Make a giant invisible cube of the area they need to be in.
If they touch the invisible cube the Value is set to true.
You add a thin invisible zone right the big cube on all directions and and when they touch that part their Value is set to false.

#6

You could just see how many players are in a place by having a loop, and getting a table of the players, and use #table.

Then you could use messaging service to send it to the main game.
Or are you talking about a single place? Like areas?

#7

Ok i should rephrase this, I mean the game within a universe, like a place you teleport to between games

#9

this thread was moreso a question of getting the amount of players in all servers of a place

#10

I remember making something very similar to this, here are very simplified steps on how I remember doing it:

-Using subscribeAsync and publishAsync
-Every 10 - 30 seconds send a new 'request' which basically asks each server for the amount of players (you can easily make it only count in a specific place instead of every place)
-Since each request has a different 'id' it never duplicates
-Add them all together, and voila