Hehehe, help.

[Manakra]

When Im running my server, I have to close down every once in a while (the server that is), so my question is, how do I save it, so when I open up a new server, our character files are saved when we log back on?

[Leaf]

Is this with a Windows, Linux or MacOS based server?

If it's for a Linux based server, I suspect there is a directory permission issue where players files should be saved (~/var/crossfire/players/)

Make sure whichever user is running the server, has acccess rights to that directory.

[Manakra]

This is a Windows server.

[Ryo]

Hopefully installer made correct directories, so player files should be stored.

To correctly close the server, issue the 'shutdown' command with a logged-in character in DM mode.

Alternatively, you can hit 'ctrl-pause' in the server console, should close it properly (iirc).

[cavesomething]

isn't emergancy save supposed to deal with that?

[Rednaxela]

Also, to be more sure of proper server shutdown, one can go into dm mode and use the "shutdown" command. From my experience this isn't usually nessary, however it's a way to be reletively certain of a proper save.