Question about Multiplayer

[Resurrect]

So me and my friend bought the game recently to play together.
We started a new game and played for like 4 hours together in the same lobby, I got tired and had to log off but my friend continued playing.
the next day I loaded up my game and it took me back to when I left it so how does that work? I thought time moved for the both of us? Now if my friend loads up does it take him back in time or what?
Can someone explain briefly how it works?

[Tankfriend]

Originally posted by Resurrect:

I thought time moved for the both of us?

This is not an MMO with live servers that just keep going with a single unified save state when people log off.
Instead, every player will have their own savegame on their system when they close the game.

Can someone explain briefly how it works?

The game will have created a savegame for each of you when you closed the game. The savegame you have is when you closed the game, and the savegame your friend has will be from when they closed the game.
Depending on who hosts the new game, you will continue at their respective savegame. So if you want to keep playing where your friend closed the game, your friend will now have to host the game based on the savegame they have.

[Marz88]

What happens to the island of the player who logged off first though? Does it just appear as afk? Can you go bankrupt?