Lua [globalevent] Saving 5 randoms players

[ligus]

Hey, does anyone know how to get 5 random players?

I want to make script which saves 5 random players but do not know how to get them

function onThink(interval)
     for _, pid in ipairs(getPlayersOnline()) do
     -- get 5 random players
     doPlayerSave(randoms)
     end
end

Does anyone have an idea?

 

[ligus]

Well, I have something like that:

    local list = getPlayersOnline()
 
    local player1 = list[math.random(#list)]
    local player2 = list[math.random(#list)]
    local player3 = list[math.random(#list)]
    local player4 = list[math.random(#list)]
    local player5 = list[math.random(#list)]

But it can draw one player 5 times during one "lottery", does anyone have an idea how it can be done without any repeat?

 

[tetra20]

maybe

function onThink(interval)
local players = getPlayersOnline()
     for i = 1,5 do
     doPlayerSave(players[math.random(1,table.maxn(players))])
  end
end

 

[ligus]

Still the same problem, it repeats players

 

[Summ]

local amount = 5

function onThink(interval)
  local players = getPlayersOnline()
  for i = 1, amount do
    local id = math.random(#players)
    doPlayerSave(players[id])
    table.remove(players, id)
  end
end