Leadership: Leaders & Followers

The Lead and Follow Update gave a mechanic for players to follow other players and create leaders.

The leader who the players are following are given the abilities to exile, redeem exiled, and order.

People having the same leader will have the same colored badges. Higher-order leaders have more elaborate badges and tiles, including Lord, Baron, Count, Duke, King, and several levels of Emperor. Your badge color is determined by the leader at the top of your tree.

Following
Players can follow other players by saying "I follow John Doe" or "I follow you" standing next to the player they wish to follow.

Babies born will inherit their mother's leader, but if their mother has no follower then babies won't follow anyone.

You are able to create sub-leaders thus making a hierarchy of leaders. When a leader dies his followers get transferred to whoever they were following, but if they followed no one then a random follower will become the new leader.

Each player can optionally pick one other player as their direct leader. You can switch leaders at any time, and you can go back to having no leader by saying "I follow myself".

When a leader dies, their followers are passed up to the leader above them, if any, and their list of exiles is passed downward to each of their immediate followers. In other words, the tree does the right thing automatically, behind the scenes, to preserve valuable information.

Orders
By saying "Order, everyone come to town center" a notification box will popup for the followers in the top left of the game screen.

Orders propagate automatically from follower to follower and the distance is 10 tiles.

Exiled players do not see the order or the message

Exiling
As a leader you can exile with "I exile John Doe" or "I exile you" standing next to the player they wish to exile.

An exiled player will appear with an exiled badge marking them as exiled.

Higher-ups in the hierarchy can override redeem lower leaders' exiles.

If a leader dies and has alive exiled players,

Redeeming Exiled
As a leader you can redeemed exile players with "I redeem John Doe" or "I redeem you" standing next to the player they wish to exile.

Tips

 * As a leader you can tell your followers to ready to kill someone by making them say "I will kill John Doe" so you can create a murder mob and outrun the player.
 * Get females to follow someone as soon as possible since babies follow their mother's leader. This deals with babies and kids unable to follow until they are older.