A few minutes ago, I noted a new stat in the "Forum Moderators" section of the main forum page. The stat has a star as its symbol and is below the number of quests in each mod/admin's spot. Here's a screenshot:
I'm guessing this is a point system of some kind, but I don't see any indication of it in the profiles yet.
Edit: The "star" stat appears in the threads as well. My "star" value is 6,270, but I see several mods/admins with 5 digit values. Among the mods/admins, Gantic has the highest value with over 30K.
It IS a point system, and I guess the name is "SM"
I'm pretty sure the "sm" just means the symbol is small, but the inspect does show that it's a point system.
Also, I just completed a medium quest, but I haven't gotten points for it yet. That may be because it was for Crusaders of the Lost Idols (the easy quests were for Earn to Die 2: Exodus).
I completed another medium quest while waiting for the previous one to count, so I now know that medium quests are worth either 25 or 50 stars. I'm going to guess 25 since some users have their star values ending in 5.
I'm cooler than both of you together. @.@ And Gantic and MDC are even more. Okay, so that means it definitely has to be about quests. But even when considering different quest difficulties, it's probably not just quests, since (e.g.) @bakkart has less points than me (26220 vs 26525; 955 vs 931 quests).
Well, I guess APs are back.