I have no idea if anyone suggested this, but...
Power is just a way to show how good/great someone is from the combination of this 5 things.
1) Fame
2) Influence
3) Wealth
4) Numbers
5) Achievements
Each will give a different amount of Power.
1) Fame
Each 2500 fame a person have gives 1 power, as even thought its small but big amount of fame will give a lot of power.
2) Influence
Influence works the same as Fame but each 960 total influence will give 1 power.
3) Wealth
Wealth is a lot more different then Fame or Influence, it calculate all the money you currently has and also from bank.
Each 250,000 you have will give 25 power.[Each 10000 will give 1 power]
And the profit and loses will all be added to this, Each 100 power you gain from this will increase the req amount of gold by 10% each time you gain 1 power.[1000000gc = 100 power, next power is 10100 give 1 power, so on and so on.
4) Number
This measures that amount of ships a person has and also the type of ships the person have, eg: sotl: 11 LMM:59 = ??? power
5) Achievements
This measure your achievements like you build a hideout and/or top helper etc...
This can be change depending on how the dev like it to be, but its just a thought i have when i was walking to my room[lol].
Its just a way to measure all a person has done in the same and put it all into a number.
-1 Skyhawk
Updated title to better fit suggestion - Dez