Dynamic pick list of current Player Names?

Module Design
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Hello All -

I would like to create a pick list in a dynamic property, populated by all of the current players’ names.

Has anyone tried to do something like this?

Is there a nuance in the difference between PlayerSide, PlayerId and PlayerName that I could exploit?

The game module I’m working on would always have between 5-10 players, so I suppose I could populate the list with 10 unique global property names (G1 - G10) and then have each of these global properties set as the playername somehow?

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Pax Pamir 2nd Ed does something to collect Player Names and map to sides at the game startup. Not quite what you’re asking but it might help you to take a look.

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I use 2 GP per side plus 1 per seat. In a 5 players game I will use

  • BlackNumber (populated from seat#) and BlackName (populated from PlayerName)
  • Blue…
  • …
    Then Seat1, Seat2, Seat3, Seat4, Seat5 : populated from Colors/Sides in game.
    This allows to create traits and functions based on $PlayerSide$Number, finding the color/side assigned to a number from Seat#.
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Hi,

I’m sharing this module made of dropdown from seat numbers and player names.
To test it, I simulated the names and seats from buttons.

Right-click on the text to see the 2 options.