Waiting For all Players in TeleportToPrivateServer

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#1

Im trying to teleport a group to a private server from the lobby. (Similar as Tower Defence Simulator, or Dungeon Quest,etc)

Currently, I’m teleporting the players fine but I’m trying to find a way for the game to start after all the players that were teleported load.

My solution to this is to send a table from the server containing all the player’s names but you cannot do that (As far as I know).
My Second solution to this is solution 1 but on the client. This would work but it may be a potential risk factor for exploitation.

Is there any other solutions I can do, I want to ensure that all the players teleported (will time out). But all the players who did teleport are loaded in completely.

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#2

If you’re teleporting players using TeleportPartyAsync, you can use the GetJoinData function of the Player whenever a player joins the game. It returns an immutable table and used on the server, so it is secure, and one of the entries is Members which contains UserIds of all of the players that are teleported alongside the player

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local Player = Players.PlayerAdded:Wait()
local members = Player:GetJoinData().Members
local ready = false
local joined = {}

function PlayerAdded(player)
    joined[#joined + 1] = player.UserId
    if #joined == #members then
        ready = true
    end
end

-- Adding the current player, or any players that happened to join before the event has been made, to the table
for _, v in ipairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
    PlayerAdded(v)
end

-- Adding players who joined to the table
local con = Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    PlayerAdded(player)
end)

-- Giving time for players to join

for i = 30, 0, -1 do
    if ready then
        break
    end
    wait(1)
end

-- disconnecting the event
con:Disconnect()
con = nil

-- All players have joined now (or time has passed for players to join)
-- Proceed with the game
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#3

Is TeleportPartyAsync a PrivateServer or can other players join it?.

#4

It would teleport to a public server that players could join, but using teleport data would help. In the source game (place of origin), you’ll make a table which contains a list of players (their userIds) in a table and pass it as the teleportData in the TeleportToPrivateServer function and just grab the teleport data from the first player that joined in the target place. A remote event is needed, where you will send a request to the first client to get the data and return it to the server:

-- Client
RE.OnClientEvent:Connect(function()
    local data = TeleportService:GetLocalPlayerTeleportData()
    RE:FireServer(data)
end)

-- Server

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local joined = {}
local ready = false
local members

RE.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, data)
    members = data
end)

local Player = Players.PlayerAdded:Wait()
RE:FireClient(player) -- obtain teleport data, which is the members

while (not members) do wait() end -- Waiting to get the data

function PlayerAdded(player)
    joined[#joined + 1] = player.UserId -- Keep track of players that joined
end

for _, player in ipairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
    PlayerAdded(player) -- Account for players that have already joined, including the first player
end

local con = Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(PlayerAdded)

for i = 30, 0, -1 do
    if #joined == #members then
        break
    end
    wait(1)
end

con:Disconnect()
con = nil

-- All players have joined (or 30 seconds has elapsed)
-- Proceed with the game
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