I'm really confused... I have been at 3000 for a while now (can't seem to get rid of these points quick enough) and then when I just completed a mission I look over and I see 3000 (+10)... I don't understand at all what happened but I'm about to finish some more missions and we will see what happens from there...
Edit: So I completed another mission... 2990 (-10)... refresh the page and it's already 2992 (+2)... strange...
There is a counter that is taking place, every time you refresh the page, a plus sign indicates that you have gained AP since the last time you hit the web page. A minus sign indicates you did something that took action points.
As far as the AP system is concerned, I am a gold member and rose to the 7th rank before falling back to 17ish. I don't like the idea of something limiting my actions for a game that I chose to pay money to play, even though I will NEVER drop 24 hours at a setting on this or any game, I feel that if someone wants to do that, then they should have the advantage over me instead of being limited. Similar to WoW, you spend time and energy into a game, you should get rewarded.