mob/Login()
    world << "[src] has logged in!"

    // Check to see if they're a GM and add appropriate verbs.
    if(src.ckey in GM)
        src.verbs += typesof(/mob/GM/verb)

    // If "Load" loads the saved game and "New" overrides the old
    // saved game, what do you need "Delete" for?
    switch(alert("Choose an option:", world.name, "New", "Load"))
        if("New")
            
            switch(alert("What is your gender to be?", world.name, "Male", "Female"))
                if("Male")
                    src.icon_state = "male"
                    src.gender = MALE
                if("Female")
                    src.icon_state = "female"
                    src.gender = FEMALE
            
            // To locate the player at "start", use DM's map editor and modify one of
            // the turfs to have the 'tag' variable = "start", and they'll start on
            // that turf. Or better yet, modify an /area to have the "start" tag, then
            // they'll spawn wherever there's room in that area.
            src.icon = 'Player Icon.dmi'
            src.loc = locate("start")
                    
                    
        if("Load")
            var/savefile/S = new("players/[src.ckey].sav")
            src.Read(S)
            
            // As Deadron once put it, saving the 
            // mob's 'loc' var is "just a bad a idea."
            // You'll figure out why eventually.
            var/loadx
            var/loady
            var/loadz
            S["x"] >> loadx
            S["y"] >> loady
            S["z"] >> loadz
            src.loc = locate(loadx, loady, loadz)
            
                    
mob/Logout()
    // delete the old save to avoid weird interactions
    fdel("players/[src.ckey].sav") 

    var/savefile/S = new("players/[src.ckey].sav")
    Write(S)
    S["x"] << src.x
    S["y"] << src.y
    S["z"] << src.z
    del(src)