Keck

If you really want help troubleshooting, I'd suggest a new topic that is a bit more clear as to the problem and doesn't involve a newcomer reading 48 pages

Ah my bad. Only part I understood was that the telnet server was frozen, did not realize the entire game was frozen too. I don't want to type shutdown! Then I have to telnet...oops I guess I could type it into my Squiggly ~ window oh well. I don't think my server has ever frozen...maybe once one day when I decided to see what happened when I filled a building with TNT in Creative. It either froze or uber laggy, can't remember which. I only play with 2 people though and the server is never up for more than a few hours typically.

Hey, I haven't read the last 47 pages, so maybe I'm reading the last comment out of context, but can't you just do "sa" from the ingame console (~) before killing the process so your game is saved? I run my 7DTD server on Ubuntu and I just do "sa" and then ctrl-C the server because I can't be bothered to telnet and figure out the proper shutdown command.