Reputation: The ongoing accumulation of guild impact and renown
Reputation can be thought of the total amalgamated 'impact' that a guild has made on the land and its home city (if such affiliation exists). It is returned to zero at the start of each new year, but will take into account all of the past century of Avalon life and guild achievement.
A high reputation has numerous benefits, most notably tempting prospective youngsters to join your guild as enlistable recruits for the guild military. To take advantage of this, a guild must allocate its recruiting officers to focus a percentage of their efforts on a specified city to ensure recruits from that area in the land will be persuaded to join you instead.
Take note that recruitment will be also impacted by the numbers generated by the citizenry of their chosen city. Thus if a guild sends all its recruiters into Mercinae, but Mercinae has few citizens generating new army recruits, the guild's own recruitment will suffer - whatever its reputation.
Reputation is gained through the actions of guild members in hundreds of different ways - completing quests, slaying enemies, making offerings to deities, expanding sphere of influence (military, elemental or farsight), helping the young and competing in events and tournaments to name but a few. Almost all actions generate reputation though activity which follows more closely with the guild's self-defined outlook or 'ideals' (See HELP IDEALS) will be of most benefit.
All guildmasters have access to some specific, more detailed commands relating to reputation:
REPS, REPS THISYEAR and REPS LASTYEAR
These commands assess, in the form of rough rankings, the prowess of each of the active guilds relative to one another in various ways. REPS on its own leagues the guilds in order of reputation attained so far this calendar year, since the 1st of
Midwinter. REPS THISYEAR ranks the guilds according to how much of their annually re-eveluated reputation remains at the guild's disposal, for allocation about its various purposes. REPS LASTYEAR ranks the guilds according to their starting points at the new year assessment, an assessment based on an aggregate of the past decade's reputations as compared against the guild's professed ideals.
REP on its own and REP ALLOCATE <cityglobe> <percentage>
Typing REP without anything after gives you a succint rundown on the current state of your guild's
annual reputation, and what remains of the powers derived from reputation assessment made at new
year.
REP ALLOCATE allows you to allocate a portion of a guild's reputation directly to augment the might
of a city's divine globe.
