Returning methods

There is one more way of creating variables, and that's using methods. Some methods can return values, which you can later use to make a new variable!

How to find a returning method

These can be found when running the serhelp methods command. In order to destinguish if a method returns a value or not, there is the [rets] marker. Here is a part of the output (as of 28.10.2025):

--- PlayerVariable methods ---
> ContainsPlayer [rets]         Returns a true/false value indicating if the provided player is in the list.
> GetPlayerFromReference [rets] Returns a player variable with a single player from a reference.
> JoinPlayers [rets]            Returns all players that were provided from multiple player variables.
> LimitPlayers [rets]           Returns a player variable with amount of players being equal or lower than the limit.
> RemovePlayers [rets]          Returns players from the original variable that were not present in other variables.

How to use a returning method

Do you remember that exception about methods being the first word in a line?

What classifies as a method?

Well, this is the exception. Let's say we want to use the LimitPlayers method to get one random ClassD player. Let's check it's documentation using serhelp LimitPlayers (as of 28.10.2025):

=== LimitPlayers ===
> Returns a player variable with amount of players being equal or lower than the limit.

This method returns players, which can be saved or used directly.

This method expects the following arguments:
(1) 'players' argument
 - Expected value: Player variable e.g. @players or * for every player

(2) 'limit' argument
 - Expected value: Value must be at least 1 e.g. 421

In order to save the result to a variable, we need to do this:

# creates @player variable with 1 random player from the @classDPlayers variable
@player = LimitPlayers @classDPlayers 1

You have now successfully saved the return value of LimitPlayers method to a variable!