Seems like botting is common/used in this game

For this game in particular, that has to be one of the most boring things someone could do in terms of gaming

easy solution: manual messages from mods/who ever manages the game

if you dont respond quickly, this will count as a warning, 3 warnings - being banned for 1 week and so on

Am I reading this correctly that you want users to receive a message and if they don't respond quickly they may eventually get banned? If so, absolutely horrible idea. Sometimes I'm playing on mobile on a road trip, or half afk on my computer while watching sports. Sometimes I have to get away from my desk because one of my kids needs me. If a game ever required me to be 100 percent alert all the time I would easily be looking for a new game.

I mean the game requires you to me active anyways, atleast when you´re exploring and so on

i do understand the point of not looking in chat all the time, i also miss lots of messages,

a button/pop-up window would be better

Yeah, this is a dumb way to go about it. I'm the same as Robbie21 I'll be afk for hours while playing on my mobile, or I'll be playing 2+ hours actively without ever looking at my messages.

I'm not sure how they track botters in this, but whatever they're doing seems to be working for the most part. I'm sure there are some people who are getting away with it.

How do you play the game if you´re afk ?

you have to be on the device all the time to do anything, fishing, muting, exploring

if you do any of these things, i dont see an issue replying to a message/ or press a button or anything similar

if you´re litreally afk and dont do anything, it´s a diffrent story ofc

Jubilance

Afk for hours.

Does this count as the game being played ?

im sure the game can detect people that arent doing anything

Just dont want to get Locked. I cant respond quickly when im working.

how do you play without looking at the screen ?

Jubilance does it for you. Gaining experience.