the internal game clock seems to be bust as its all over the place as i have had bonus turns turn up after 1 -3 hours logged out or none after 12 hours logged i never know what i get when i login these days is it me or is a random time span as i dont want to be take advantage of called a cheat please sort it out

I'm not sure theres anything wrong with yours. Generally the text is the same as when there was a logout bonus.

The logout bonus is gone tho, its been gone for about a decade. There is just a login bonus now and that gets people confused.

I'm not sure if I understand what you are describing but it sounds like something that can happen if you are getting one of the bonuses late and the other bonus on time.
You could theoretically get 3 bonus points for the 12 hour bonus then just a few minutes later 3 bonus points for the 18 hour bonus. but if you were logged out another few minutes you would get both bonuses at the same time and get 6 bonus points at the same time.
It's a pretty simple mechanism in its coding(but hard to understand from the text as it wasnt updated when the coding changed), I very much doubt theres ways to manipulate it either deliberatly or not.

cheers bud might just be me as i just wanted to figure it out lol.

The 18 hour timer is all that matters, and like gerdler said, no need to stay logged out any more. Just keep track of which bonus you're getting because claiming the 3 turns from the 12 hour bonus doesn't matter. Claiming the 3(or 6 if the 12 hour bonus wasn't claimed) from the 18 hour bonus is what resets the 18 hour clock for your next bonus. If you happen to refresh just before the bonus you'll have to wait until the next turn comes to get the bonus.

cheers bud more maths work to do lol

https://m.earthempires.com/...change-31871?t=1409691527

Tldr:
Play turns at midnight. (no bonus)
Country play 18 hours later (gets 6 turns from 12h & 18h bonus)
Country plays 4 hours after that (gets no turns)
Country plays 8 hours after that (gets 3 turns from 12h bonus)
Country plays 6 hours after that (gets 3 turns from 18h bonus)
Country plays 8 hours after that (gets no turns)
Country plays 10 hours after that (gets 6 turns from 12h & 18h bonus)
Country plays 72 hours after that (gets 6 turns from 12h & 18h bonus)
Country plays every 2 hours for 24 hours, gets 3 turns at 12h and 3 turns at 18h.


Thus, if you play every day, you should get 6 turns bonus per day, on average; you don't have to wait for the 18h mark, you can play at 16h and then 2h later at 18h to get your bonuses.

Technically, if you play every 6 hours all set, you end up with an average of 8 turns per day, over a 72h cycle. However you'll have a smaller PM &etc; if there ends up being any sorts of abuse with this we can always tweak stuff, but I don't anticipate anything too extreme.

Nice explanation req thanks

Playing every 18 hours will get you 8 bonus turns a day too. No need to login every 6.

18 hours-6 turns
36 hours-6 more
54 hours-6 more
72 hours-6 more

24 turns in 3 days is 8 each.

Thank Tmac, I just Copy + Paste what Qz posted :D There is more info on that post that the OP may be interested in for whatever reason.