How to optimize something without copy and pasting the same part with the same script

[bold bison]

I have 3 checkpoints here, and was wondering how do I find a way to use only 1 script for all the checkpoints (theyre all using the same script btw)

[raven thorn]

you could probably use collectionservice for that

[green turtle]

collectionservice or just use tables

collectionservice does replicate though so that's generally not a good thing for trivial matters like this

[bold bison]

what do you mean by using tables?

[green turtle]

Store them in a table and operate on them from within a loop

[bold bison]

also ive made an existing script

[bold bison]

the script contains script.Parent.Touched and now i moved it to SSS

[gloomy badge]

** You are now Level 7! **

[bold bison]

the thing is now script.Parent is just the serverscriptservice

and the script dosent work

and i cant just do Getchildren:("Part") because the parts all have different number values

[bold bison]

is there a way to fix this problem?

local CollectionService = game:GetService("CollectionService")

for _, part in CollectionService:GetTagged("Checkpoint") do
    local Players = game:GetService("Players")
    local db = true
    Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
        script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(plr)
            if db then 
                db = false
                local player = game.Players:FindFirstChild(plr.Parent.Name)
                local leaderstats = player:FindFirstChild("leaderstats")
                if leaderstats.Stage.Value < tonumber(script.Parent.Name) then
                    leaderstats.Stage.Value = tonumber(script.Parent.Name)        
                end        
                db = true
            end

        end)
    end)

end

[green turtle]

massive memory leak, collectionservice (auto replication) unnecessary

and :GetChildren() will return a table of all children of an instance

it does not matter what name it is

[covert sage]

You should just use component utility by sleitnick (same as collection service ) https://sleitnick.github.io/RbxUtil/api/Component/

[green turtle]

"yes let's bloat our game with overhead made by someone else and make it harder for us to learn important concepts, yeeeess that's a great idea! Why didn't I think of that?"

[covert sage]

What was the point of saying that?

[green turtle]

figure it out yourself

[covert sage]

...

[green turtle]

please, you cannot expect me to spell it out for you twice