While true loop just stops running

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#1

Just asking here because I have a while true do loop that just stops running right when the conditional statement within it is fulfilled (though it does not seem to run what is inside the conditional statement either), and I’m not sure what it could be getting stuck on. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and this is my code below:

while true do
	wait()
	print("test")
	if game.Workspace.Values.Ongoing.Value == false then
		for i, v in game.Workspace.Occupied:GetChildren() do
			if v.Name ~= "PlaceHolder" then
				v:Destroy()
			end
		end
		for i = 15, 0, -1 do
			wait(1)
			print(i)
		end
		local AmountOfPlayers = 0
		for i, v in game.Teams.Lobby:GetPlayers() do
			AmountOfPlayers += 1
		end
		if AmountOfPlayers >= 2 then
			for i, v in pairs(game:GetService("Players"):GetChildren()) do
				local Plate = game.ReplicatedStorage.Plate:Clone()
				local Occupied = true
				local Found = false
				while Occupied == true do
					local column = math.random(0,8)
					local row = math.random(0, 8)
					for i, g in pairs(game.Workspace.Occupied:GetChildren()) do
						if g.Name == column.."/"..row then
							Found = true
							break
						else
							Found = false
						end
					end
					if Found == false then
						Occupied = false
						Plate.Position = Vector3.new((column*22)-88, 50, (row*22)-88)
						Plate.Parent = game.Workspace.Box
						Plate.Name = v.Character.Name
						local NewFol = game.Workspace.Occupied.PlaceHolder:Clone()
						NewFol.Name = column.."/"..row
						NewFol.Parent = game.Workspace.Occupied
						wait()
						v.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(Plate.Position)+Vector3.new(0,5,0)
						v.Team = game.Teams.Playing

					end
				end
			end

			print("finished")
			game.Workspace.Values.Ongoing.Value = true
			game.Workspace.EventController.Start:Fire()
		else
			print("round cannot start not enough players")
		end
	end
end
#2

Looks like when g.Name == column.."/"..row is false, you break, but when it’s true, you also break because you set Occupied to false.

There is no purpose in putting this into a while loop.

#3

Correct me if I’m wrong but does break not only terminate the current loop, which in this case would be the for loop? Which would not have any effect on the while loop as a whole. Also just to clarify, the first iteration of the loop runs flawlessly, It’s only after the conditional statement at the beginning is met for a second time that it breaks. For example, if I were to run it (providing there are enough players) , it would print test, test2, finished, and then the loop would print test until the conditional statement is met again, and then it would print nothing at all, which leads me to believe it is either stopping for some reason or getting stuck on something.

#4

Tell me what this prints when you run it:

while task.wait() do
	print('test')
	if workspace.Values.Ongoing.Value == false then
		for _, v in ipairs(workspace.Occupied:GetChildren()) do
			if v.Name ~= "PlaceHolder" then
				v:Destroy()
			end
		end
		for i = 15, 0, -1 do
			task.wait(1)
			print(i)
		end		
		if #game.Teams.Lobby:GetPlayers() >= 2 then
			for _, v in ipairs(game:GetService('Players'):GetChildren()) do
				local Plate = game.ReplicatedStorage.Plate:Clone()
				local Occupied = true
				local Found = false
				repeat 
					local column = math.random(0,8)
					local row = math.random(0, 8)
					for _, g in ipairs(workspace.Occupied:GetChildren()) do
						if g.Name == `{column}/{row}` then
							Found = true
							print('Still Occupied')
							break
						end
					end
					if Found == false then
						Occupied = false
						Plate.Position = Vector3.new((column*22)-88, 50, (row*22)-88)
						Plate.Parent = workspace.Box
						Plate.Name = v.Character.Name
						local NewFol = workspace.Occupied.PlaceHolder:Clone()
						NewFol.Name = `{column}/{row}`
						NewFol.Parent = workspace.Occupied
						v.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(Plate.Position)+Vector3.new(0,5,0)
						v.Team = game.Teams.Playing
					end
				until Occupied == false or task.wait() and false
			end

			print('finished')
			workspace.Values.Ongoing.Value = true
			workspace.EventController.Start:Fire()
		else
			print('round cannot start not enough players')
		end
	end
end
#5

it prints test until the round ends and then stops printing anything at all, or more accurately it prints test, then finished, and then it repeats test until the round ends and stops.

#6

Do simple prints before to see why if statements aren’t passing, for example:

while task.wait() do
	-- print('test') -- not needed anymore, next line will print proving  
    -- that the while task.wait loop is repeating.
    print("Ongoing.Value = ", workspace.Values.Ongoing.Value)
	if workspace.Values.Ongoing.Value == false then
    --code
#7

Could you make record a video running the code, showing both the output and the explorer showing the Occupied Instance in workspace as well as whatever is inside?

#8

I ended up just changing from a loop to a recursive function which I should have done in the first place. this message more or less made me realize how convoluted what I was trying to do was compared to the simplicity of the issue.

#9

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