How do I make a script that checks everyone to see if they have the highest number of a certain player attribute?

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Yeah, it’s the title that explains my question.

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basically all u need to do is this

Trigger: Every Frame (roughly 50ms)

for all players (In Human Players)
then do:
        for all units (in game)
        then do:
                 if (player name of (selected player) =! player name of (selected unit))
                 then do:
                         if ((points) of (selected player) > (points) of (owner of (selected unit))
                         then do:
                                 set (server-king) as (player name of(selected player))
                         else do:
                                 set (server-king) as (no one)
                 else do:

this will basically go through all players and units in the game that dont have the same name and set the variable (server-king) to the player name of the person with the most points

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Why do you check every unit in the game for every player in the game? That’s a lot of unnecessary looping. Looks like you only ever compare two players without putting the existing server-king into the question. Also you don’t need the every frame trigger if you only need to check the server king at a given moment

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its not gonna work if u just do all players thats why

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You’ll probably need a global variable of type player, and a script like this:

set (leader) as (undefined value)
for all players in (human players)
  do:
    if ((leader) == (undefined value)) OR ((points of selected player) > (points of leader))
      then do:
        set (leader) as (selected player)

When the loop is finished, the value of the variable leader will be the player with the highest points.

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i like to do it the more complicated way lol

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Why though? That’s detrimental to your game’s performance, hard to understand, and a waste of time…

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lol i just like doing things the old way in case of deprecation and future reliability

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Thanks for your input, RagDev and kyle69!

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10

Wait, if leader is an undefined value, and the loop says for all players in (human players), who will become the leader?

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leader is undefined value before the loop starts. When the loop runs its first iteration, leader will be set as the selected player (see if ((leader) == (undefined value))). Then in the next iteration, it compares the current selected player’s points to the points of the previous selected player (which is leader). As long as there is 1 or more players in the game, leader will not be undefined value when the loop finishes

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Oh, so loops do everyone one at a time. I thought it did everyone at the same time.

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That’s not really a thing computers can do, unless they have a multi-core processor maybe. Loops run in iterations, one by one, and that’s why there’s only one selected player at a time.

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