Acting your town meta when scum

[Persivul]

I really worry about folks who play a lot and end up intentionally acting to their scum meta (or intentionally blurring their towngame), as town, to increase their scum winrates or to make it harder to detect them as scum.

Honestly there have been a few games where I expected town I was facing to act as town as fuck -if they were town- but they instead acted (I discovered later) to a more androgynous (phrasing?) meta where it would be extremely difficult to read them either way.

Agreed. By watering down your town game (i.e. not doing much real scum hunting), it's easier to play scum undetected -

but you're not scum hunting as town

. That's lazy and hurts your team when you're town, which is the majority of the time. The challenge is to learn how to appear to scum hunt convincingly as scum.

[Persivul]

What's it like for you?

When I'm scum I use the 95% rule. Suppose I'm reading the thread and think of something to say, but then think no, that could hurt me as scum. I ask myself if I would say it as town. If yes, I need to make 95% of those posts anyway.

[Persivul]

Agreed. By watering down your town game (i.e. not doing much real scum hunting), it's easier to play scum undetected -

but you're not scum hunting as town

. That's lazy and hurts your team when you're town, which is the majority of the time. The challenge is to learn how to appear to scum hunt convincingly as scum.

Question - is this an acceptable strategy, or is it unethical as it somewhat goes against town wincon in favor of scum games?

[Persivul]

Tbh, people don't scumhunt but agree hunt most of the time anyway.

Agree hunt?

[Persivul]

Just be like me and not make cases as either alignment!

It's play like this that is killing a lot of games.