Hello! I’m trying to make a card game, and I’m first working out how to implement my game’s loop (30 second intermission → game → 30 second intermission). It’s going well so far, but I’m having a problem switching people into the “Playing” team once the game starts.
I have two teams in my ‘Teams’ folder: ‘Playing’ and ‘Spectators’. As you could guess, the game would ideally put the player in the ‘Spectators’ team once they join, and they’ll be placed into the ‘Playing’ team once the game starts. Here’s my code for setting a player to ‘Spectators’ once they’ve joined the game (the file’s in ServerScriptService):
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player.Team = game:GetService("Teams")["Spectators"]
local stats = Instance.new("Folder", player)
stats.Name = "leaderstats"
local wins = Instance.new("IntValue", stats)
wins.Name = "Wins"
wins.Value = 0
end)
And here’s my file “GameHandler”, which handles the game’s main loop:
local clock = game.ReplicatedStorage.Clock
local Chairs = workspace.Chairs
while true do
local intermission_time = script:GetAttribute("IntermissionTime")
clock.Value = "Game starting in:...\n"..tostring(intermission_time)
repeat wait(1)
intermission_time -= 1
clock.Value = "Game starting in:...\n"..intermission_time
until intermission_time == 0
local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
for i, v in pairs(players) do
v.Team = game:GetService("Teams")["Playing"]
local character = workspace:FindFirstChild(v.Name)
if character then
local rootPart = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
if rootPart then
local spawnId = math.random(1,16)
print("Spawn ID: "..spawnId)
print(Chairs:GetChildren()[spawnId]:WaitForChild("Seat"))
local spawnLoc = Chairs:GetChildren()[spawnId]:WaitForChild("Seat")
if spawnLoc then
rootPart.Position = spawnLoc.Position
end
end
end
end
end
The way I structured this, once the intermission ends, each player in the server would be switched to the ‘Playing’ team. However, when I start the game, I’m immediately assigned to the ‘Playing’ team. How can I go about fixing this?
(And yes, I did turn off ‘AutoAssign’ for ‘Playing’ and left in on for ‘Spectators’, so the game should automatically have players join the ‘Spectators’ team without me having to specify in my ‘PlayerSetup’ script).