I played for fun without diamonds or anything, no matter i had them on my account. I just played when i want and when i have time due to other stuff i must do in my real life. And i have different experience. Ok, i played without mercenary, didnt focus on crafting, mostly on fight. And i always had enough AP. If you fight easy oponents which bring little XP, little gold and take no health from you, yes you will run out of AP. But if you choose harder fights and you dont always heal with potions, but wait to heal with time, you have plenty of AP. And in such cases, you get a lot more XP, gold... and have spare AP for digging, crafting...
Your idea to remove AP. The game would become just a click fest. First, the best people would be those who have a lot of free time and they would be just clicking and clicking and clicking on easy locations... Then, like in similar games, people with rigt knowledge would use bots... And most of people wouldnt play this game, because if you dont click 20 h per day you wont stand a chance to progress.
AP are there to give people an option to choose their way. You can be fighter, master crafter, finish quests... but you need to invest AP right way. And, like all stuff in life, you cant be at top in 2 hours. As i see, you would like to be lvl 50 in 2 days. You are lvl 5, as you said and you cant grow fast enough because your AP are limited. Everybody AP are limited. I know a lot of guys who are tier 5 without premium or they earned diamonds in-game for basic things they wanted. And thay played at their limit, played when they want...
I personally dont like game when i have to click 1 000 000 times in day for 1 month to score something. I dont have time or wish to do that. Thats why 3 clicks now, 5 crafting later, 5 battles when i have health, traveling elsewhere when i must leave PC is great for me. And i guess for a lot of players who want fun, but cant play 20 hours daily all the time.
I am sorry you are leaving, because you think that AP concept is bad and that we dont give anything to people who are not premium. We changed some rules, just to give people without premium more gameplay. We give bonuses so who ever takes premium, gets more for their money... and you can experience and have access to all options to game, no matter you are not premium. Just at little slower rate. You cant get kicked by higher lvl guy, because you are of no interest to him, you are lower lvl then he. And some time after him, you will also be at same lvl 49 as he. Maybe even selling him equipment, because you will be better crafter.
We apreciate all people, especially when they say their opinion. But sometimes, other side have better arguments and your idea to remove AP ... well, it wont be Imperial Hero anymore.