When iClassic first came out I thought it would be nice if those markers were displayed as arrows above the players head. Gold arrow showing staff, green arrow showing a friend, etc. Things that you could turn off if you wanted to. That would make AP name colors a free thing to use, but like I said, I don't think we'd be allowed to explore this.

Maybe one day when there's more hearts, where AP would be actually useful to have in order to balance the field. I don't know how Stefan feels about adding extra hearts though. They were the main purpose of doing quests however, so to me it goes hand in hand.