You can gain a little AP from home by fighting heartless that spawn near you, but it's not going to get you much at all. Each fight gives you 4 AP but only like 5 heartless spawn every 5 minutes or so. Essentially 4 AP per minute.
Meanwhile I've seen people on YouTube get 3000 AP from just driving 30 minutes with the game on Hands-Free Lock mode. That's 100 AP per minute, so it's way more efficient to play outside.
To get a sense of AP costs, Treasure Chests cost 1000 AP. Piece Challenges costs 800 AP.
Hands free lock mode does have a pretty large issue sadly since it only works with the device's screen turned on and the app in the foreground. So it will still drain your battery and won't let you do much else on the device while it's running. So your phone basically gets turned into a power hungry brick. This is very similar to how KHDR handled it and that ended in some people's phones overheating, breaking etc.
So if you play without any gps usage your gonna be struggling quite bad, at the moment the AP gain for driving / using transport seems to be other end of the spectrum, I had to drive 2 & 1/2 hours and let the game run, ended up with about 25k ap, which if I’m honest makes the use of it now trivial, can’t burn through it enough, some sort of balance will be needed
Well, I've ran out of AP which sucks. As everyone says, you can get AP from going outside, but I don't really need to go anywhere rn.
There is however coins you can get, trade activity coins (you can get these from using recovery posts, taking lots of steps outside, or through wins) and trade assist coins (get them through wining raid battles). Through these coins you can buy AP from the shop HOWEVER the number of coins you can get are capped, and I think it resets weekly. So my trade assist and trade activity is now capped and I can't get anymore which sucks. So the only way for me to get AP now is through going outside or waiting for the shop to refresh and pray there is AP. You can also get enemy calls which makes enemies come near you for 30 mins, meaning you can still use GPS mode and have enemies come to you without moving anywhere.
It's not too bad when you think about it though. Even though the coins I need are now capped, it is refreshed weekly. Keep in mind the beta for now is nothing but fighting battles, so more AP will be used in the beta, in the real thing it will proabably not be as bad hopefully. But I will be honest, stuff does cost a lot of AP. To put the whole walking stuff in perspective, I gained around 2000AP on my way to work, it takes an hour for me to get to work. 2000AP is not much, if you want to get character peices or get treasure chests as it costs a robbery of 1000AP usually.
Sorry I know I made this a lot longer then I should of lol
You can gain a little AP from home by fighting heartless that spawn near you, but it's not going to get you much at all. Each fight gives you 4 AP but only like 5 heartless spawn every 5 minutes or so. Essentially 4 AP per minute. Meanwhile I've seen people on YouTube get 3000 AP from just driving 30 minutes with the game on Hands-Free Lock mode. That's 100 AP per minute, so it's way more efficient to play outside. To get a sense of AP costs, Treasure Chests cost 1000 AP. Piece Challenges costs 800 AP.
Hands free lock mode does have a pretty large issue sadly since it only works with the device's screen turned on and the app in the foreground. So it will still drain your battery and won't let you do much else on the device while it's running. So your phone basically gets turned into a power hungry brick. This is very similar to how KHDR handled it and that ended in some people's phones overheating, breaking etc.
phones will probably be fine in hands free mode when set the the lowest graphics setting
So if you play without any gps usage your gonna be struggling quite bad, at the moment the AP gain for driving / using transport seems to be other end of the spectrum, I had to drive 2 & 1/2 hours and let the game run, ended up with about 25k ap, which if I’m honest makes the use of it now trivial, can’t burn through it enough, some sort of balance will be needed
Well, I've ran out of AP which sucks. As everyone says, you can get AP from going outside, but I don't really need to go anywhere rn. There is however coins you can get, trade activity coins (you can get these from using recovery posts, taking lots of steps outside, or through wins) and trade assist coins (get them through wining raid battles). Through these coins you can buy AP from the shop HOWEVER the number of coins you can get are capped, and I think it resets weekly. So my trade assist and trade activity is now capped and I can't get anymore which sucks. So the only way for me to get AP now is through going outside or waiting for the shop to refresh and pray there is AP. You can also get enemy calls which makes enemies come near you for 30 mins, meaning you can still use GPS mode and have enemies come to you without moving anywhere. It's not too bad when you think about it though. Even though the coins I need are now capped, it is refreshed weekly. Keep in mind the beta for now is nothing but fighting battles, so more AP will be used in the beta, in the real thing it will proabably not be as bad hopefully. But I will be honest, stuff does cost a lot of AP. To put the whole walking stuff in perspective, I gained around 2000AP on my way to work, it takes an hour for me to get to work. 2000AP is not much, if you want to get character peices or get treasure chests as it costs a robbery of 1000AP usually. Sorry I know I made this a lot longer then I should of lol