Strings through a network?

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hi I am making a RTS style game where you build armies/bases and attack your friends/enemies army/base(I was making this on DellanX, but the password for the login was mest up, so I created a new account). I am having trouble with sending my variables to the network. In this case I am sending each players name, faction name, color, and alliance to the network. I need all players to be able to see eachothers name/army/faction, but I cant seem to figure it out. I know very little about RPC, and I dont have enough knowledge to use it to solve this problem.

EDIT:

in case you didn’t see the comment below

I attempted to figure out RPC, but am having problems. I am Using arrays to store players, but when I connect to my server my variables arent changed. I am using code like:

public ArrayList PlayerName = ArrayList public string MyName = ""; //Script for GUI here

void OnServerInitialized(){

MyName = "BLUE";//For identification

networkView.RPC("SetServerInfo",RPCMode.All);

}

void OnConnectedToServer(){

MyName = "RED";//For identification

networkView.RPC("SetServerInfo",RPCMode.All);

}

[RPC]

void SetServerInfo(){

PlayerName.Add(MyName);
Debug.Log(PlayerName[0])//Show What the first name stored is

}

When I run my program as server I get in my log:

BLUE

When I run my program as client I get:

RED

What am I doing wrong? and what do I need to do to fix it???

2

I figured the problem out it turns out the function itself is over the network, so in order for the variables to be stored right I need to send them over the network also, I ended up with this:

void OnServerInitialized(){
PlayerNames.Add(PlayerName);
Debug.Log("SERVER");
Debug.Log(PlayerNames[0]);

}

void OnConnectedToServer(){
networkView.RPC("SetServerInfo",RPCMode.All,PlayerName);

}

void  SetServerInfo(string PN){
PlayerNames.Add(PlayerName);
Debug.Log("CLIENT");
Debug.Log(PlayerNames[1]);

}