Board Game Arena

Your safest bet if you have to pause overnight (or longer) is the "Switch game to turn-based" option.

On an individual game page the "Watch a game in progress" link has the game number in the URL.

Your avatar in the top right-hand corner should flash red when you log in after the end of a turn-based game.

Can you point to a table in which a tie-breaker was applied for Russian Railroads?

Additionally, I assume these databases are temporary and get deleted after a certain period, which means these statistics would eventually be lost. If you're talking about the end game statistics (which I think you are) then I believe these are never deleted, For example https://boardgamearena.com/...

Are you trying to move one of your ships to Wise 1541-2250 (the top right colony)? If so, that planet requires an extra rock to land on it (due to an event card).

Is it possible that you have 'Arena' set for the games you've tried? If that's the case then it won't let you change the settings (as they're fixed for each Arena season).

It's not asking to do anything with the Ghost Ectoplasm that you took, it's referring to a Ghost Ectoplasm that has dropped down the channel. You need to click on it and assign a colour to it so it can work out if there are any more explosions.

Your final placing in a tournament is also logged in the 'My Activity' section of your profile.

If it was a real time game then it would have been closed after ~4 hours with no move made.