Prestige is gained from participating in and winning fights against other Inquisitors, selling items on Public Auction, or winning Contest fights. You lose prestige by losing a fight in open battle. You also automatically lose 10 percent per week. Abandoning area also costs you ten percent of your prestige.
The way of the Merchant
The amount of prestige gained via selling things on Public Auctions is decided by this formula:
Sell Price * Tax * 0.01
For example - 1000 Gold*50% tax*0.01 = 5 Prestige gained
What prestige is for
Areas
The higher your prestige, the more areas that are available to you. You start with 3 random Areas and a slot for another one. To get new Areas you'll have to spies while having at least 1 free slot. With the spie you can scout for new areas in adjacent to yours.
| Area | Prestige |
| 5th | 10000 |
| 6th | 20000 |
| 7th | 40000 |
| 8th | 80000 |
| 9th | 160000 |
| 10th | 320000 |
| 11th | 640000 |
| 12th | 1280000 |
| 13th | 2560000 |
| 14th | 5120000 |
| 15th | 10240000 |
| 16th | 20480000 |
| 17th | 40960000 |
| 18th | 81920000 |
| 19th | 163840000 |
| 20th | 327680000 |
The Maximum amount of Areas is unknown. To truly investigate it would take an immense amount of prestige.
Taxes
As your prestige grows, the taxes for selling items on public auction is lowered. Information required: What are the tiers and how much prestige is needed
Management
Prestige will directly effects the radius of areas that you can control before you begin to lose management. The more prestige you have the larger an area you can have.
How prestige can negatively effect you.
Attacks
The time it takes to make an attack and the cost of the attack will increase when you are attacking someone with lower Prestige.
Those with lower Prestige will have a reduced attack time/cost.
