Hello,
The main purpose of check clock is to set a certain time for any tournament or Clan War battle. It will become really convenient in future for moderators to manage tournaments and forecast next rounds.
I'd say that you should consider the entire time given to make all turns in any single game as your <b>initial bonus</b>. How much time do you spend usually when making turn?
I bet it takes from 2 to 30 minutes which mostly depends on planet size and turn number. So considering the longest game takes 40 turns (which happens really occasionally) your top ingame time is 0,5 x 40 = 20 hours. And we have chess clock options from 1 till 4 weeks to complete all turns in a game!
From my personal experience I can say that if the game is so important (like the most of tournaments’ games for you) I reply on turns immediately, which finally leads to meeting opponent online and finishing game like in 30-40 minutes. I believe the same happens to you guys and only in some rare cases you won’t be able to take your turn for 2-4 days(weekends, holidays – I don’t consider vacation here, but if it happens I’d rather pass my account to my friend of the same skills then let loss due to timeout).
So the only option I think chess clock misses at the moment is fast defeat limit which happens when opponent holds turn on his side for 5 or more days. But we’re planning to fix this in one of our upcoming patches.
Dave - I promised to reply on this, guess you remember
Best Regards,
Nick.