taking DEFENDED keeps should grant at the very least more than defensive ticks. As sad as this following reality is, many players only care about earning AP (especially if they are saving for the akaviri motif set:D its almost 2 million AP for all the armor alone and each scale costs 5K AP, and one needs 10 to make a goldscale to use with crafting) the way I see it, if players were rewarded as much or even more AP for taking keeps than farming at alessia bridge or the chal milgate, they would be more inclined to take keeps. I see people all the time choosing to farm at Alessia bridge instead of defending chal, or even ariuss. Honestly, I can understand why they do this; there is more AP involved, and again, many people only care about AP.