====== Player Activity ======

===== What is activity and how it's triggered =====

Activity is an indicator (*) that appears on a specific planet or moon.

Activity on is triggered by two main categories of events:

=== 1. Player Actions: ===

  * **Logging In**: Triggers activity on the planet/moon the player logs into.
  * **Clicking Menus**: Clicking almost any menu (Overview, Fleet, Defense, Research, etc.) triggers activity on the currently selected planet or moon.
  * **Clicking Empire menu**: Creates activity on every planet
  * **Refreshing the Page**: Updates the activity on the active planet/moon.
  * **Using Sensor Phalanx**: Triggers activity on the moon from which the Phalanx was scanned, but __it does not create activity on the target planet being scanned__.

=== 2. Game Events ===

  * **Fleet Arrivals**: Any fleet arriving at a planet or moon (yours, an ally's, or an enemy's) triggers activity on that target destination __except hold missions.__
  * **Espionage**: An enemy espionage probe arriving at a planet/moon triggers activity on it.
  * **Fleet Returns**: A fleet returning to its origin point triggers activity upon landing.

===== The asterisk (*) and activity timers =====

When you view the Galaxy screen, activity is displayed directly next to the planet or moon's image. The indicators follow a strict timeline based on the last triggered event:

^ Indicator      ^ Time Since Last Activity       ^ Meaning          ^
| Asterisk (*)    | 0 to 15 minutes     | The most recent activity happened very recently. |
| Number (15 - 59)    | 15 to 59 minutes     | Shows the exact number of minutes that have passed since the last activity trigger.        |
| No Indicator    | 60+ minutes     | No activity has occurred on this specific planet or moon for at least one full hour.        |

===== What does it mean if you don't see activity? =====

If a planet or moon has no activity indicator, it simply means no clicks have been made on that specific planet/moon, and no fleets have landed there in the last 60 minutes.

However, you must be careful: __**No activity does not guarantee the player is offline**__. Because activity is localized, a player could be sitting online, actively building ships and sending fleets from "Planet A," while "Planet B" shows completely dead with no activity. Advanced players often sit on a moon without clicking to lure in attackers, or they only refresh a single planet to hide the fact that they are online.

===== Is the galaxy view the only place to see activity? =====

  * **Buddy List**: If the player is on your buddy list, you can see their overall account activity.
  * **Statistics Page**: While it doesn't show an activity star, players watching the Highscores can track if a player's points are updating, which is a secondary way to confirm if an "inactive-looking" player is actually online and spending resources.

===== Inactivity for longer period of times =====
Players are marked as inactive if they remain inactive for:

  - more than 7 days, which is indicated by an (i) next to the player's name
  - more than 28 days, which is indicated by an (I) next to the player's name
  - By default, an account is deleted after 42 days, but this may vary depending on the [[universum|universe]] settings.

When the inactivity period begins, newbie protection and strong player status are removed.