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.
Build completion: If the buildings are scheduled in the build queue, the game refreshes on completion

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.