You have to work for AP, you don't get them for free at registration
Well that's wrong. If you go here http://www.althanas.com/world/showth...tial-AP-Claims you can get 5 initial AP after your character is approved.

so if people want to farm AP, let them.
Charging 5 AP makes it pointless to make an account, register for the 5 AP and transferring it.

It's going to be slow going unless they put a lot of effort into it
Reading the opener to a thread, and posting a few paragraphs on the opener can net you 1-2 AP or if you take a little longer to read the entire thread and do a full rubric workshop you can earn upwards of 4 AP per workshop. Further if you post a quick vignette it's an automatic 1 AP.

and really, what advantage is there to be gained from having more AP? You can buy non-RP related stuff? Okay, whatever.
1 AP = 100 GP or 50 XP that's nothing to laugh at.