Number of active players in game

[jeroon]

Is there a way to show the number of active players in game? I'm using #game.players atm, but I've noticed that when a player leaves, he stays in the game.players table, so I can't see if the players in there are really ingame (not sure if this is a bug). Anyone got a workaround?

[JamesOFarrell]

Is there a way to show the number of active players in game? I'm using #game.players atm, but I've noticed that when a player leaves, he stays in the game.players table, so I can't see if the players in there are really ingame (not sure if this is a bug). Anyone got a workaround?

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function getPlayerCount(players)
	local playerCount = 0
	for i,player in ipairs(players) do
			if player.character ~= nil then
				playerCount = playerCount  + 1
			end
		end
	return playerCount
end

[jeroon]

So i set up a MP game, player 2 joins, player 2 quits, and i run this in player 1's console:

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/c if game.players[2].character == nil then 
    game.players[1].print("i'm not here")
end

And it prints nothing, so the table game.players still holds the character of players that have quit.

[drs9999]

Maybe you can use somethingelse from here:
https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... Lua/Player