Will game.Players:GetPlayers()[1] ever change values?

[jsnotlout1]

Will game.Players:GetPlayers()[1] stay the same player no matter how many players join?
I know that if a player leaves it may change but I want to know if it will change when players join?

[dthecoolest]

@jsnotlout1

Players:GetPlayers

Yes.

Roblox player join order

You should not rely on the order of the players returned by GetPlayers() to have any meaning. Even if you were to find that it happens to be ordered by join time right now, coincidentally, the API doesn’t guarantee this, so it would be unsafe to code with this assumption. What you should do is connect an event listener to Players.PlayerAdded and manually store join times (or maintain your own sorted list). This is reliable.

Researching further it seems it is because Get Players is similar to :GetChildren() but specifically for players.

Documemtatiom Players | Roblox Creator Documentation

It functions the same way Instance:GetChildren would except that it only returns Player objects. It functions similarly to Instance:GetChildren when called on Players .

And from there get children is well it’s odd, it is ordered yet not guranteed so best bet is to assume it will change values.

Is :GetChildren() deterministic?

Perhaps the issue was in the chunk you used to obtain the resulting order. Did you use pairs in a for loop? If so, this might explain why the iteration did not follow any order when indexing objects inside the table. However, I searched up this on older devforum topics and found that there’s a big confusion even among Roblox staff… TheGamer101, November 2018: The children are returned in ChildOrder, this is the order that the children are added in. The first children to be added are first in…

[jsnotlout1]

Ok I’ll just set a value in serverstorage to the first player Thanks

[EmilyBendsSpace]

Save join times on the server, but don’t literally put something in ServerStorage. ServerStorage is mainly for instances you intend to clone into existence during gameplay. Something like join times should just be kept in a Lua table.

[jsnotlout1]

Yeah I’ll do that instead Thanks

[jsnotlout1]

What I’m doing is storing a value in serverstorage and replicated storage that is set to the player who first joined so that other scripts in the game can reference it