Glad someone has been posting about this as my concern is that not enough people know (props to QV for doing some heavy-lifting). Some of the changes I noticed is that plot/elite instance don't count towards group activity points anymore. We recently had a scare when we noticed we were going to be a few points shy of being eligible for GNW's required 200 minimum activity points during a rolling 3 day period. It's a matter of educating your members of what counts and doesn't count. Thought I'd share what my group and I found through trial and error and testing so far in 4.0:

1. Each member can contribute a maximum of 6 daily activity points. It caps out at 6 and each individual member can't contribute any more than that.

2. Only Daily Practice activity count as points. For example you login/sign-in, that's 1 point. You do your ninja exams, thats another 1 point. You do your survival trial, 1 point. You do 2 of the arena missions, 1 point. You do the 5 wanted missions, another 1 point. You chill in the bath tub for 2 hours, another 1 point. Now you have 6 points. Other things like completing SA once and doing ninja test also provide 1 point each.

3. None of the timed events count as activity points. Team Instance, Convoy/Plunder, 9 Tails, Fighting Matsui, Sage Wars, don't count toward the daily 6 points. They will count toward the frogs below but do not count toward the 6 activity points that go towards your group's required 200 activity points in the rolling 3 day cycle.

4. QV appreciate you getting started on the math but 11 people will still be a little shy of the needed 200 points. 11 people x 6 points = 66 points. 66 points in a rolling 3 day (66*3) is 198 poiints which is just shy of 200. You'll need 12 active members. The 12th member just needs to contribute 2 of the possile 18 (3*6) points he/she can contribute during the 3 day window.

Being that it's holiday season it's understandable that activity in the game may decline temporarily but as you educate more members of the recent changes, hopefully you'll notice activity increase.

For folks that are level-freezing, I recommend the following:

1. Daily Sign-In

2. Participate in Arena (we get 2 daily arena missions)

3. Get Resource from Rich Field

4. Survival Trial

5. Relax in Hot Springs

6. Strong Approach (just do 1 of the easy ones after you finished your 7 for the week)

This would give you the 6 activity points without xp. But remember you will gain xp if you claim any frogs below. Another thought is you c*so sub out Arena for the ninja exams if you're sorta in a hurry and not looking to #$%! your head trying to get a win with the required composition. Yeah you gain xp but it's a pimple and the magatamas add up.