Has your friend tried the netstat command, probably as netstat -a to check listening ports, to confirm that the game server is listening at all? (Run that on the same machine as the server.) It has been a long time since I have used Windows, so you may want to check the output of netstat /? or netstat -? for other hints on using that command.

Your descriptions sound suspiciously like a series of keystrokes entered at some prompt. What are you typing those keystrokes into? The best solution here may involve Expect rather than Perl if you are trying to automate interacting with a simple shell program. Perl will work much better if you are wanting to actually send network packets directly.

My friend and others have tried everything. That is why I am asking if this script can be done.

This script will be ran on a terminal on a Ubuntu system.

I can do this manually, changing the port each time, but to automate it with a script would be gold!

I could run this auto script until it returns player stats.

Sir, thank you for your time. However it seems that you are not comfortable with doing this.

I will never ask anyone to do anything they are uncomfortable with.

Thank you so very much for your replies!

I did not say that I am uncomfortable with this. At this point I'm asking exactly what steps are involved. The descriptions that you have given appear to be incomplete. As I understand, most game servers speak various binary protocols, so simply sending "status" to a UDP(!) port is unlikely to do anything useful. What program are you typing "status" into?

Please read carefully and ask your friend if he has tried netstat.