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There was no ships orders, no buildings therefore no turn data accepted but host ran in advance. How this might be happened?

There was no ships orders, no buildings therefore no turn data accepted but host ran in advance. How this might be happened?

As far as I can tell, host did NOT run early, it ran on time.

At host run time, you had not submitted a turn. Therefore, the host went into your game directory and found a matching (but empty) turn file there, so it used that instead of marking you as "turn missed".

Not sure what timezone you're in, but this game hosts at 22:00 GMT which is 0:00 my time (CEST), which means I better always look twice. The server runs on GMT and knows nothing about timezones; all translation to your local time happens in your browser. When you hover your mouse over a local time, it should show your the original GMT value. For example, right now, North Star 18 says "Next host: 08/Jul/2025 0:00", but the actual time is "Mon 2025-07-07 22:00 GMT".

--Stefan

The game is North Star 18.

I can confirm that Zergio's status was on red around 5 minutes before the regular hostrun that day, I've been sitting at home waiting for the hostrun. So to me, it seemed as if he uploaded his trn the very last minute

It seems I really missed the host run, that's my own fault. But I simply wander that my status of that turn is green in the game history.

It seems I really missed the host run, that's my own fault. But I simply wander that my status of that turn is green in the game history.

You probably looked at your turn with PCC2 Web and then closed your browser window. Normally, you should exit PCC2 Web using the regular "exit" function which would explicitly submit a (possibly empty) turn file to the host, and offer you to mark the turn temporary.

When you just close your browser window, the system will eventually collect your actions in a turn file, but NOT upload that to the game. This means you can easily resume playing later and submit the turn file correctly, if you closed your browser in error. Or you play on your computer and upload your turn file, so everything is consistent again.

But if you do not upload a turn file, the host will explicitly check whether there is a left-over turn file, and use that. Imagine you're playing for an hour, then your browser crashes, but you're in a hurry to leave for your train, and in the evening you forget to continue. In this case, this feature will play your turn with the partial turn file you already produced, in the hope that this is less of a loss than skipping the entire turn.

This feature has existed for a very long time, when PCC2 Web looked totally different and it was much easier to close a browser window by accident.

--Stefan