Quote: ExcelsiorDo the chompies still spawn when you are not there?
It is after midnight here and still they come, I just want to know what I will wake up to.
Thanks
If you watch the game closely when you open it back up from the background, your island elements - trolls, sheep, building status, totems, etc. - are exactly as they were when you minimized the game. Then the game re-renders all the items based on the current time and brings up the sheep messages. This occurs regardless of wifi connectivity.
This is the behavior of most apps on iOS - when they are not the active app, they are not processing. I have seen a few apps that have background processing (Striiv, for example) that continually run even when minimized and drain your battery very efficiently at the same time.
This is a long answer to your question. The short answer is no, they don't spawn when you're not playing. The game must have some algorithm to determine what/how many to spawn when you start the game up.