Hello yocalif welcome to the game of tradewars.
Turns are accumulated every hour in TW so if it was 1000 turn game you would get 41 or 42 turns an hour.
Recently EIS added the turn bank to TW this sysop configurable option allows turns to still accumulate over a series of days so that if you miss a day you don’t fall to far behind the people your playing against.
If you get #SD# out of the game you have to sit out until after extern you loose all the stuff you had on you and you loose all your turns and only start to accumulate again after extern.
Sounds to me it’s all working as intended.
You should take a look at the web site there’s a lot of good information there about how the games works.
http://www.tw-cabal.com/index.html