A player can never lose his protection before it expires. The reasons for losing protection are the following:

 
- Declaring war or giving a rally command
- Scouting another base.
- Seizing resource locations that another commander occupies.
- Attacking another player's unit, which is holding and stationed in an empty location.
- Scouting or sending your troops to the battle lab when another player has pressed the location is considered an attack
* besides, all these actions in the events will result in losing your protection, too:
- Attacking the Rebel warehouse (The Cross-server border war).
- Starting a rally attack against in (the converged rebels robot).
- Joining a rally against the Rebel bosses.
- Clicking on (Stationed troops) inside the (Unclaimed lands gate) will lose your protection, but attacking inside the event will not.