What's the process to create a party system

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#1

So for my turn based game the way I’m going to sort out turn based battles and positioning heavily relies on a party system, the problem is I have no knowledge as to how to make one, so I’m here to ask you pro coders for some tips or guides on how to create at least a baseline working one.

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#2

It depends on what you are trying to do with your party system.
For starters, you can do something like:

local newPartyInfo = {
	Name = "Party 1",
	PartyMembers = {
		[1] = {
			Name = entity1,
			Keybind = "1" -- this is purely optional, i dont think u need this for a turn-based game
		}
	},
			
	CurrentMemberOnField = certainEntity,
	PartyEquippedStatus = true,
	MaxMemberSlot = 3, -- the party max member count
}

Then you can just simply do the logic with another code to only use the specified party information. Ofc for a turn-based game, you need to account for something like SPD for their turns and stuff.

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#3

So at the base level the party system i make just contains a table of all the players and then sends that table over to the server script via remote event and puts those people in the battle with whatever positioning i make

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#4

Yeah you can do something like that if you want something simple to do

#5

Whats with the “Entity1” and certainentity things

#6

Just a placeholder, it depends on how you are gonna use your party system. Let’s say it is a player party system, then you just store their names or instances inside

#7

Do you know how i would get the specific players that are inside the party? and like the invite system

#8

Hm the most basic thing you can do is probably to just to loop through the PartyMembers to find a specific player.

local members = newPartyInfo[PartyMembers]

local function lookForPlayer(name)
	for _, member in pairs(members) do
		if member == name then
			return member
		end
	end
end

lookForPlayer("Player1")

There are other ways without loop but they require you to know metatables and metamethods