Player list only appears for the first player to join

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#1

Hello everyone!

I am currently working on a system to vote for players in the server. When a block is pressed (will move it to ServerScriptService later) it will display a GUI of all the player’s names. When a button is pressed on a player’s screen, it will remove the GUI and they will get a vote.

For some reason, when I press the button on my screen, I get all the players in the server; however on my alt’s screen, it only shows the alt’s name. Here is the script I believe has the issue
below:

ClickScript (this is the script inside the part I click to activate the GUI)

local players = game:GetService("Players")

local rs = game.ReplicatedStorage
local votingAssets = rs.VotingAssets
local votingGui = votingAssets.VotingGui
local votingScript = votingAssets.VotingScript
local voteSave = votingAssets.VoteSave

local part = script.Parent
local cd = part.ClickDetector

cd.MouseClick:Connect(function()
	for i,v in pairs(votingGui.Frame:GetChildren()) do
		if v:IsA("TextButton") then
			v:Destroy()
		end
	end	
		
	for i,v in pairs(voteSave:GetChildren()) do
		v:Destroy()
	end
	
	for i,v in pairs(players:GetChildren()) do
		local vButton = Instance.new("TextButton")
		vButton.Text = v.Name
		vButton.Parent = votingGui.Frame
		
		votingScript:Clone().Parent = vButton
		votingGui:Clone().Parent = v.PlayerGui
	end
end)

Thank you for the help in advance.

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#2

If you would like,
You can create a remote event to update all players.
You can use :FireAllClients() to fire to all of the clients to that remote.
And so, it will update all of their playerlist.

#3

That seems fair. Should I do it with .PlayerAdded? Or is there another, better way to do it?

#4

I had issues with .PlayerAdded whilst in studio, but it is useable.
Unless if you don’t wanna mess with remotes then you can update a value like

local p = game:GetService("Players")
local players = p:GetChildren()
while wait(1) do
players = p:GetChildren()
end

Obviously that updating value thing is ineffective for this, and not good practice.
To test your code, you would have to publish it to a game and play the game, you cannot run it in studio because it won’t do anything since you are already in the game, but you can still try, as I said I had issues with it in studio.

#5

Could I make it so I don’t need it to be constantly updating? Maybe if I made it part of the fired event?

#6

Yeah, you can make it part of the fired event.

#7

I think I figured out the issue; turns out that if a player is higher than them on the player list (leaderstats, username) then their name will not be displayed for players who are lower that them. Why is this?