Best Way To Find Out The "Places" Players Are In?

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Hello, everyone.

I’m currently working on a free for all gamemode for my arena shooter. However, I’m not sure how exactly to detect what place a player is in, based on score. There’s a value called “Kills” under a folder called “GamemodeData” which is then under the player object.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!! :slight_smile:

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2

Do you mean leaderboard standings?

3

Yeah, that’s what I’m going for.

4

Store the Data in a Table and use table.sort()

5

Alright.

I’ll see how that turns out.

6

This is something I made a while back.

Two functions.

sort takes in a table of Players with their level, so

players = { {Player,level} , {Player2,player2level} }

function sort(tbl)
	table.sort(tbl,
	function(a,b)
		if a and b then
			if a[2] and b[2] then
				local player1level = a[2]
				local player2level = b[2]
				return player1level > player2level
			else
				return false
			end
		else
			return false
		end
	end)
end

function setLevels()
	local Players = {}
	for i,Player in pairs (game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
        local Level = Player.Level.Value
        table.insert(Players,{Player,Level})
    end
    sort(Players)

    --Here is where you do your code. Now you have a table with players in order of highest level to lowest.
end
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7

Alright.

And for external handling, such as displaying a Victory or Defeat screen at the end, I could simply put whoever is in first place in a value that any player can access?

8

I was editing and sent by mistake woops.

But yeah you can do that. Multiple ways to do it.

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9

Alright, sweet! :slight_smile:

I shall see how this goes!

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