ServerScriptService.GiveNameTitle:38: attempt to index nil with 'UserId'

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game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	
	
	plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
		
		
		local nameGui = Instance.new("BillboardGui")
	
		nameGui.StudsOffset = Vector3.new(0, 2, 0)
		
		nameGui.Size = UDim2.new(0, 200, 0, 50)
		
		
		nameGui.Name = "NameGui"
		nameGui.Parent = char.Head
		
		
		local nameLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel")
		
		nameLabel.Text = plr.Name
		
		nameLabel.TextScaled = true
		
		nameLabel.Size = UDim2.new(0, 200, 0, 50)
		
		nameLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
		
		nameLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255)
		nameLabel.Font = "Cartoon"
		nameLabel.TextStrokeTransparency = 0
		
		nameLabel.Name = "NameLabel"
		nameLabel.Parent = nameGui
		
		local INVENT_ID = 225233347 -- problem starts here
		
		local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
		if player.UserId == INVENT_ID then
			nameLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(255, 0, 0)
		end
		
	
end)
end)
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You wrote your code as game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr) then referenced plr as player.

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You can’t use Players.LocalPlayer in a Server Script. It is equal to nil.

Instead, I think you can do it like this:

Change this…

local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
		if player.UserId == INVENT_ID then
			nameLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(255, 0, 0)
		end

To this…

if plr.UserId == INVENT_ID then
	nameLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(255, 0, 0)
end
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local players = game:GetService("Players")
local INVENT_ID = 225233347

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
		local nameGui = Instance.new("BillboardGui")
		nameGui.StudsOffset = Vector3.new(0, 2, 0)
		nameGui.Size = UDim2.new(0, 200, 0, 50)
		nameGui.Name = "NameGui"
		nameGui.Parent = char.Head
		local nameLabel = Instance.new("TextLabel")
		nameLabel.Text = plr.Name
		nameLabel.TextScaled = true
		nameLabel.Size = UDim2.new(0, 200, 0, 50)
		nameLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
		nameLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255)
		nameLabel.Font = "Cartoon"
		nameLabel.TextStrokeTransparency = 0
		nameLabel.Name = "NameLabel"
		nameLabel.Parent = nameGui
		if plr.UserId == INVENT_ID then
			nameLabel.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(255, 0, 0)
		end
	end)
end)

Just fixing the formatting & some other stuff. As the previous post stated “game.Players.LocalPlayer” isn’t defined in server scripts and will just return “nil”, you also already had the player instance defined inside the variable named “plr” with the PlayerAdded event so all you needed to do was reuse that.