@WaNeZot and @AAO, yes the game will track leadership points (both for you and Tress)
For the MC,
, you gain a leadership point if you successfully contribute in the Dr. Hover situation, either: 1) by ordering Crook to help, 2) or by snagging Tress (you need a zip line, so that means you need to be a Level Two Acrobat or Sharpshooter, and you also need both your Pow and Zap to be >3 so I guess that’s a pretty hard check for most MCs, but it rewards people who spread out stats a bit), or 3) by catching Tress when she falls, which requires Pow > 4, easy for Acrobats and Detectives, but doable, but hard, for other archetypes) Anything else you do will end up failing, and you’ll lose a leadership point.
Then you have the “rest period” after the attack.You can gain a leadership point simply by giving a speech; there’s no check to succeed, just a personal check that gives flavor to your speech. So for players who want leadership points, it’s an automatic gain, but you give up resting (decreased Ouch), and you give up sneaking around (there are three areas to explore).
Then you have the Night of Chaos…or whatever. You can lose a point by driving wildly, as has been discussed, but you can also gain a leadership point by avoiding violence with the looters, because that’s what you were ordered to do. You can gain the point by: 1) getting DG to “talk them down” (need to know DG’s secret and you need a Hmmm > 6), or by charming them (need charm over 50%, or 3) by scaring them (need brooder over 50%), or 4) even by tossing them some change so they run off (that’s probably the most questionable, but it does avoid violence), OR 5) you can even get a point by throwing yourself in Quickie’s path to avoid him smashing the looters. So those are pretty easy checks and there are 5 different ways. However, if either the looters or Quickie ends up injured, you lose a point.
Then there’s the apology to California. IF you are the leader, you can 'take one for the team" and apologize, which gives you +1 to leadership and a stat boost with Tress (and I’m adding one for Mob too), BUT you get a delayed punishment next week because California views you as the “ringleader”. The punishment should be included in the next update. If you don’t apologize, you avoid punishment but lose a leader point. IF you are NOT the leader, you have to choose between saying something that pisses off Tress (+1 leader point) or that agrees with her (-1 leader point)
Finally if you’re leader, you can get a point during the “team meeting” by calling out her attempts to hijack the meeting. However, depending on what you say, she can actually gain a point and you can lose one.
So you can have a maximum “hidden” leadership score of +5 by the end of the update, and I will toss in more checks along the way.
