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.
Have you figured out what happens when the ipad "sleeps" while the app is active?
There are times when I log in and immediately hear the sound of a totem imploding. I always scan for totems so I am sure I am not leaving any behind. I have this theory that the when ipads sleeps while the app is active, the game keeps running and things spawn and despawn.
I see similar activity around the chompy spawns where I log in and there is an empty spawn and holes all over. I have a bad habbit of setting the ipad down with the game active and it sleeps.
Just to add, this happens frequently enough that I doubt it is happening in the 2 min before the before it sleeps.
Is this possible or am I crazy?