(UNET) Respawning the player causes the player to have a new netId

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I’m currently using this in order to give each player a unique ID.

GetComponent<NetworkIdentity> ().netId;

Which works, but if I respawn the player by destroying and re-instantiating, they spawn with a new ID. (which I’m doing like so)

var spawn = NetworkManager.singleton.GetStartPosition();
var newPlayer = ( GameObject) Instantiate(NetworkManager.singleton.playerPrefab, spawn.position, spawn.rotation );

NetworkServer.ReplacePlayerForConnection( connectionToClient, newPlayer, playerControllerId );
NetworkServer.Destroy( gameObject );

So I’m really not sure how to fix this. I’m aware I could have a dead boolean and reset positions instead of actually respawning, but since I’m trying to have multiple classes you can spawn as, I need to re-instantiate every time.

Any ideas? Or could someone share how they did it in their own game?

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You could either track by connection id or just create your own player ids.

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Thanks, didn’t know about connection id’s.

edit: It worked, by the way.

edit2: If anyone coming across this thru google is wondering exactly how you do this-

        if (isServer) {
            uniqueName = "Player " + connectionToClient.connectionId.ToString ();
        } else {
            uniqueName = "Player " + connectionToServer.connectionId.ToString ();
        }