Ignoring the conditional?

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#1

I’m attempting to make a karma system for those of which who kill players that arnt intended to be killed, however, I’ve come across an issue.

The chunk of code in the gun:

Gun Code

…

h:TakeDamage(damage)

print(h.Health) -- h being the humanoid of the player that got shot

if h.Health <= 0 then

print("Deathed")

game.ReplicatedStorage.Event:Fire("DeadByPlayer",h.Parent.Name,script.Parent.Parent.Name)

end

And this is what catches it:

…

if MPS:UserOwnsGamePassAsync(v.UserId,TwoTimesGhostGamepassID) == true then
				
				table.insert(GhostChance,1,v.Name) -- add it twice
				table.insert(GhostChance,1,v.Name)
			
			else
				table.insert(GhostChance,1,v.Name) -- else add it once
				
			end
		end 
		
		local ChosenGhost = GhostChance[math.random(1,#GhostChance)]
..........
game.ReplicatedStorage.Event.Event:Connect(function(Key,PlayerDeadName,PlayerName)
				if Key == "DeadByPlayer" then
					print("CORE:".. PlayerDeadName,ChosenGhost)
					if tostring(PlayerDeadName) ~= tostring(ChosenGhost) then
						game.ReplicatedStorage.Event:Fire(PlayerName,-10,"KarmaChanged")
						print("Sent Over To DataStore")
					end

Ive played this multiple times and the print in the event function always prints “CORE: Revelted Revelted” meaning PlayerDeadName and ChosenGhost are both Revelted.

HOWEVER! The function still continues, and gives the player who killed the ghost -10 karma.

I for the life of me cannot figure out how to fix this. If anyone has any ideas, HMU!

#2

Hello. The first obvious reason I could see for this happening is the two strings you are comparing are different, but look the same- there may be hidden characters. If you want to check for this, I would try printing out the strings in byte code.

function strbyte(str)
return table.concat({string.byte(str,1,#str)},"/")
end
...
print(strbyte(PlayerDeadName))
print(strbyte(ChosenGhost))