Micro 655: Forest Fire - Endgame

[Vifam]

Honestly I'm pretty terrible. Going through love/emotional withdrawals due to breakup. Basically told her to break up with me as a friend to friend because I was neglecting her. I have a crippling video game addiction that I keep saying I'll quit every day and never do, instead wasting all my time playing games instead of creating work. I'm wholly unfulfilled with my life at the moment, but realistically I have a home and support so it could be a lot worse.

jester is a legit good vote btw

Ill be your support baby
VOTE: BBMolla

[Vifam]

All jokes aside that's pretty depressing man you'll get through it though

[Vifam]

Yeah

[Vifam]

Is this a fucking weed joke

[Vifam]

Good joke I guess

[Vifam]

Honestly I'm pretty terrible. Going through love/emotional withdrawals due to breakup. Basically told her to break up with me as a friend to friend because I was neglecting her. I have a crippling video game addiction that I keep saying I'll quit every day and never do, instead wasting all my time playing games instead of creating work. I'm wholly unfulfilled with my life at the moment, but realistically I have a home and support so it could be a lot worse.

jester is a legit good vote btw

Ill be your support baby
VOTE: BBMolla

Jesus Christ dude

Chill I showed sympathy In the next post I'm not that much of a dick

[Vifam]

Okay now, lets do serious wagon:
VOTE: BBMolla

Lets kick us out of RVS.

define serious

[Vifam]

Do you not know what serious is?

Like do I actually have to vote for who I think is scum now cuz I still don't know and I dont wanna be pressured

[Vifam]

Unless you know then tell me Im down 4 anything

[Vifam]

@flub: because fire is playing the good townie who will help us out of RVS and he wants everyone to know he is doing so.

I could roll with this

VOTE: firebringer

[Vifam]

Damm I meant

VOTE: fireassassin

[Vifam]

So what's your thoughts?

I'm still good with a jester lynch

Why

[Vifam]

He gave us that palm tree joke we have to put that into consideration

[Vifam]

No idea what the Maria argument is about we should prob do something about tryhardscum Fireassasin tho

[Vifam]

BBMolla might actually be scum here too

[Vifam]

It better not be with only 3 pages and nothing vote worthy yet
I'll power lynch any of you.

I think there's plenty of noteworthy stuff already.
Why would you want to power lynch people who try to create wagons? Is your mindset being a sheep with no intention to try to solve the game yourself?

Is mine. Yes. My playstyle is I take other people opinions and rip them apart. Then I sheep the most logical. I will pick apart statement and form maybe 1 or 2 conclusions myself this game.

Is that bad?

Im more of a go with the flow kinda player, direct confrontation is annoying Id rather people just not lynch who I dont think is scum

[Vifam]

Anythings possible

[Vifam]

So far tho the only people I think are genuinely scumhunting and looking sort of town are Tier and Jester tho, everyone else I dont really care for

[Vifam]

/kanyeshrug

[Vifam]

I thought #107 was kind of me giving my townreads

[Vifam]

She's angry over some argument I dont understand, I don't really care for her tho, mitebscum I guess.

[Vifam]

What do you wanna talk about

[Vifam]

Me personally Im a gangster so id just let everyone live and set it all ablaze at once

[Vifam]

You could say that about everyone. What makes you suspicious of him? Lack of content expected from a seasoned player or refusing to justify his vote or something else?

It's not a strong read tbh, mostly because he's leading the shittiest wagon imo so far

[Vifam]

i'm upset at vifam because it was a shit play. if he thinks you're town, the correct thing to do is to let bbmolla prod you until he's satisfied.

I don't think it's bad play to deter one wagon that you townread early when you think you've found scum early in another wagon.

[Vifam]

The fact NO ONE i s defending fire and there are no counter wagons coming up this just SCREAMS ml the more I look at it

Not really, screams is kind of an exaggeration.

[Vifam]

and yet here i am with intent on fire assassin and a townread on jester and when i look at your posts 83-86 it looks scummy.

All I did in those posts was ask BB a question about a read and make a joke

[Vifam]

Dunno, I don't have problems with Vifam apart from his trying-to-be-ballsy-yet-retracting-moments-later-to-avoid-heat entrance. Could be insecure scum but I may be reading too much into it.
Townleaning on Reuben atm.

Im not being ballsy lmfao what about my play is ballsy.

[Vifam]

What Flubber said ^^^

[Vifam]

Fire isn't playing with a gimmick I don't see how being an alt changes anything


Reuben's earlier stuff about me is shitty he's also scum and a good lynch

[Vifam]

Reuben's earlier stuff about me is shitty he's also scum and a good lynch

Ok so that's it? The scumteam's Fire and Reuben, the first two people who stood out? Seems a bit too easy, doesn't it?

Yeah GG

Im still not fond of FA's play and I dont know why the wagon on him is slowing down, he hasn't really been town and his vote on Tier was pretty bad. Plus he went from Maria being his topscumread like a page ago and now all of a sudden he's townreading her on this page. Because of ego or something

Reuben's post about me cockblocking doesn't make sense cuz I never stopped BB from doing anything, I just asked a question. Then he goes on to say that a joke post I made was out of self-consciousness or something, he's completely over exaggerated those posts and it's scummy.



The best lynches at the moment imo are Fire, Reuben, and BB

[Vifam]

His play so far feels off, he's still sitting on your wagon while caping for Fire but not really making an effort on either end. That could just be laziness on his part tho I guess.

[Vifam]

Join the FA wagon then please

[Vifam]

Also never call me insecure again I am confident and beautiful

[Vifam]

Vifam I'm literally fighting the fire lynch what game are you reading

Im not feeling it

[Vifam]

Gut town on vifam btw

Me, Vifam, Maria now just lynch everyone else and we win gg

Why not fire then

[Vifam]

Gut town on vifam btw

Me, Vifam, Maria now just lynch everyone else and we win gg

Why not fire then

first wagon is scum maybe 10% of the time.

idk that might be true for larger games but there's like 12 of us

[Vifam]

Im still not fond of FA's play and I dont know why the wagon on him is slowing down, he hasn't really been town and his vote on Tier was pretty bad. Plus he went from Maria being his topscumread like a page ago and now all of a sudden he's townreading her on this page. Because of ego or something

Reuben's post about me cockblocking doesn't make sense cuz I never stopped BB from doing anything, I just asked a question. Then he goes on to say that a joke post I made was out of self-consciousness or something, he's completely over exaggerated those posts and it's scummy.



The best lynches at the moment imo are Fire, Reuben, and BB

So your not fond of a playstyle?
My reads are very versatile right now because this is still sub 10 pages and day 1. So I am wondering why you think its bad for my reads to suddenly change. And my reasoning with Maria was to wait for something that is an actual tell from her before I pushed it more.

Maria was your top scumread, I dont understand why you needed more from her when she already high on your radar

[Vifam]

"long awaited"

[Vifam]

as for vifam, having your partner 'expose' you as PR can't really hurt. if fire flips scum, we may have simply went along with "wow i guess vifam is a PR'.

I don't understand this

[Vifam]

Why would Fire flipping scum make anyone think I'm a PR?

[Vifam]

But why would that make anyone automatically assume I'm a PR

[Vifam]

as in my earlier point about that exchange it seemed like fire slipped PR read of you because he referenced it from a post he already townread you from.

How does this answer my question

[Vifam]

if you can't comprehend why i thought it was scummy after i've sounded it out (#156) then there's a disconnect with reality in that post (#177/#189).

I understand it I just think it's dumb

[Vifam]

I still don't really get what you're saying walk me through this like I'm a toddler

[Vifam]

I mean I guess

It could easily just be a signal to his partner if he felt he might get lynched today tho.

Plus scum aren't going to claim PR in this setup if one of them is gone before N1. That's pretty much putting them in a shitty situation since it narrows down the lynches for town

[Vifam]

I can't believe people are calling my non serious joke posts awkward I'm kinda pissed

[Vifam]

I'm not even an awkward guy I'm very social and charismatic and everyone loves me

[Vifam]

You're just 2 serious 4 me

Why is they're a Flubber counterwagon now

[Vifam]

It's iike no one seems to think Fire is actually town but no one wants to offer him up for a lynch and I don't get it

[Vifam]

VOTE: Reubenwasfine

[Vifam]

Nah BB Just doesn't wanna lynch him today cuz 1st wagon is scum 10% of the time

[Vifam]

Source: wikipedia

[Vifam]

Gut town on vifam btw

Me, Vifam, Maria now just lynch everyone else and we win gg

[Vifam]

Anyway If not Fire I'd prefer to get Reuben


So far Reuben's points have mostly been about aligning people together and that's pretty much useless content without a flip. And when he does go into individual scumminess he's only brought up things that have more to do with general playstyle, atleast in regards to me. Saying how I posted "late" and shit like that.

[Vifam]

That and the fact that your play started out forced, and still sort of feels forced

The Maria thing still doesn't make sense to me because if you had her as your top scumread at first you would have felt you had enough info, saying that you were pushing on her so she could towntell would only make sense if you had her as null in the first place

[Vifam]

Agree with what

[Vifam]

I see what you mean but it didn't really seem like he was fishing for reactions there

[Vifam]

You guys are acting like she promised some great speech where she carefully examines everyone's play and catches all the scum in one post

[Vifam]

The vote itself is shitty because I think Jester is town and he's not getting lynched today either way

But you stuck to your word I cant be mad at that

[Vifam]

if you have concerns about my posts break them down and say how the interactions are shit rather than say bringing them up are.

pre-flip associations are a valid way of analyzing a game. why? because if i wasn't trying to push the game along, i would have voted fire in post #145. at the time that was an awful idea and of course i'm going to prod people like vifam esp. after the "omg i PR read you!!!" post.

Because it's all empty theories with no real meat to them, a scum flip from Fire doesn't do anything to convince town I'm a PR because single scum would never claim PR in that situation in the first place. Your only other points about me is some stuff about me cockblocking and that still doesn't make sense.

[Vifam]

I haven't paid much attention to the stuff you said not involving me but your logic is complete bs, you're attempting to scumhunt by picking apart things that are more or less completely inconsequential

[Vifam]

Who said the vote on Jester was because I scumread him?

Wow I sure feel like an idiot for assuming :S

[Vifam]

I could believe the interaction stuff is just overzealous newbtown trying to look into every detail but the BBMolla stuff he brought up is this lol ridiculous and I don't see town actually pushing something like that.

+ Despite all his postings Ruben hasn't really seemed to wanna go any direction with regards to an actual lynch, he's said a good ammountf but has pushed virtually nothing. While also still sitting on an RVS vote on Flubber

[Vifam]

And the fact that Tier said that it was a nice catch earlier is pretty shitty but I can let that slide for now

The Flubber case is super weak tho and I'd prefer we deal with scummier players


Like Reuben or Firee

[Vifam]

I don't necessarily townread him I just don't feel like he's done anything outwardly scummy or pinged my radar

[Vifam]

I don't necessarily townread him I just don't feel like he's done anything outwardly scummy or pinged my radar

He's been attacking maria without trying to find out her alignment or voting her

He votes fa and just sits on it without any kind of read progression.

He's just not trying to figure out who's town and who's scum.

Where has he attacked Maria

[Vifam]

Oops I misread vifam

I just wanted more out of flub but this wagon is sure picking up steam.

Anyone up for wagoning maria?

No

[Vifam]

Follow my lead

[Vifam]

Flubber is a shitty wagon

I liked Tier's earlier play he's gotten worse but I don't wanna lynch him so can we go back to getting Fire or lynch Reuben

[Vifam]

if you have concerns about my posts break them down and say how the interactions are shit rather than say bringing them up are.

pre-flip associations are a valid way of analyzing a game. why? because if i wasn't trying to push the game along, i would have voted fire in post #145. at the time that was an awful idea and of course i'm going to prod people like vifam esp. after the "omg i PR read you!!!" post.

Because it's all empty theories with no real meat to them, a scum flip from Fire doesn't do anything to convince town I'm a PR because single scum would never claim PR in that situation in the first place. Your only other points about me is some stuff about me cockblocking and that still doesn't make sense.

But yeah ruben's bad play doesn't look scummy to me

It's not just bad play he's not pushing a lynch in any real direction, he's posting but isn't even really doing anything aside from being passive aggressive and walltalking.

[Vifam]

Like even if you have the excuse of him being newbtown or something it doesn't excuse him not moving his vote since RVS and doing pretty much nothing

[Vifam]

UNVOTE:
I really should start scumhunting

I'll do it for you

[Vifam]

UNVOTE:
I really should start scumhunting

I'll do it for you

YAY

Vote Reuben w/ me today and we'll take care of the rest later

[Vifam]

Yeah it's making me not want to participate but I don't think it's really the game Im just sad

[Vifam]

I still wanna get Reuben

[Vifam]

VOTE: Fire

[Vifam]

Were hitting the deadline and Fire is the only lynch that can get pushed through at this point and everyone said he's scummy atleast once so let's just

[Vifam]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Vifam]

UNVOTE:

[Vifam]

You forgot a person in your list

[Vifam]

Tier looks town the only person on your scumlist id vote atm is BB

[Vifam]

There are two ff in this setup

[Vifam]

I meant to put a question marks there ironically


VOTE: Fire

[Vifam]

I'd lynch BBMolla or Shift

I don't think Reuben would pull the last minute bus in his situation with me screaming for his lynch if he was scum so I'm willing to leave him alone

Flubber's reaction to his wagon D1 makes me believe he's town

Jester hasn't done anything scummy and has looked pretty town throughout, although I don't like how he lambasted FA for his claim before voting but that's the only weird thing he's done

Tier's early D1 seemed town and he was the first to push a wagon on FA, he fell off a little towards the end of the day but based off that Id prefer BB

VOTE: BBMolla

[Vifam]

I don't think Reuben would pull the last minute bus in his situation with me screaming for his lynch if he was scum so I'm willing to leave him alone

You realise that fire was already lynched when reuben voted, right?

Im talking about the vote before fire claimed PR

[Vifam]

My username is Vifam

[Vifam]

I know I should comment on your vote on me but come on man why'd you add the a

[Vifam]

Comments are more than welcome, and not just on my vote.

I unvoted because no one else was claiming PR at the moment aside from Fire, I don't see how that's scummy. We were hitting the deadline and if he was town I would have prefered getting to another lynch as soon as possible and not press him about the claim.


I don't really have a case on BB, he hasn't really been town this game and just about everyone else aside from your slot has done something that felt like it was coming from a townie. He hasn't been active and his most recent vote on you is kind of shitty seeing as you hadn't even posted at the time.

As of now the scum in my mind is between Howard/BB/Tier and Im feeling it's more likely to be BB

[Vifam]

BB's non-activity isn't really a tell in itself tho he just hasn't really towntold at all

[Vifam]

Yeah I'll get right on that boss

[Vifam]

Jester flounderd a bit on his read on Fire iirc he had sort of a strong scumread on him at start but it changed throughout

[Vifam]

Yes, he claimed, but your unvote didn't come until after the prompting. Then you never made any effort toward anyone else. Once the wagon picked up, you simply set him to L-1 and sat back. Scum constantly does "something that felt like it was coming from a townie" so that doesn't cut it with me. As for TierShift you had a town read 107 and I'm not qickly finding anything that changed that. Your picks are a practically non-existent slot yesterday, low input slot about which you waffle, and someone that you had a town read on. ?!?!?

I explained all of this earlier in my last post


I have stronger townreads on just about everyone else in the game aside from the people you've mentioned. I don't think I've ever waffled on BB or my read on him, I've always had him leaning scum.

[Vifam]

I don't see how me unvoting after he told me to unvote is scummy, once he gave his reads I was discussing who he thought was scum and I was taking it from there

[Vifam]

@The_Jester: Is it not your style to vote between your two top suspects?

@Vifam: Why BBmolla? I don't recall you really ever making a case; your most recent post certainly doesn't.
VOTE: Vifam (My apologies to all for the occasional and accidental misspellings.)
Comments are more than welcome, and not just on my vote.

@BBmolla: I'm here and will be active. Can we get something a bit more substantial from you?

@Flubberbugget: You've had two or three interactions, but no argument against BBmolla. Help us to understand.

@TierShift: What was the purpose of pointing out the SmoothBlue post and your "not be too quick" comment?

@MariaR: D1 generated enough pages for your vote and we have Fire Assassin's flip. Please share your thoughts.

@ReubenWasFine: Looking forward to your D2 input.

Reading this post makes me think roark is most likely the remaining scum. Calling out to everyone like this is a scum move which I can probably back up.

VOTE: roark

Flub get your head out of your arse btw

That's lame

I don't have much of a read of Roark just yet, he could be scum but I honestly think it's more likely to be BB at this point.

[Vifam]

That's not even fair you're asking me to make a case I don't wanna do that cut me some slack I'll explain why I think everyone else is more town but Im not gonna do that

[Vifam]

Using your method, what have you done that would put you as a town read?

What method?

[Vifam]

I don't think Jester is scum here Im really feeling it's BB

[Vifam]

I'll try and be more detailed later

[Vifam]

^ not that detailed tho

[Vifam]

did you just claim scum?

Trees can still talk after getting lynched

[Vifam]

I don't understand the Jester wagon sorry, I haven't reread the game but I don't think him being indecisive about Fire makes him scum

[Vifam]

which was my point of the thought experiment. if he was hammered and stumped, who is he going for? he isn't pushing any one and i want him to start now.

instead he dropped a sarcastic comment. looked like a scum slip.

That's a reach

[Vifam]

Im pretty sure it's BB, he was adamant about Fire being town but didn't really make any effort to defend him. He also scumreads Jester for a bit, but after awhile ends up rolling onto Shift for no discernible reason. Now he's on Howard, it just feels like he's putting in low effort as scum at this point, I don't think it's town being lazy like others have said

[Vifam]

Sometimes it really is that easy

[Vifam]

I don't think forgetting about being stumped is a slip

[Vifam]

I don't feel comfortable not lynching BB after the way he acted during the FA wagon

[Vifam]

I don't feel comfortable not lynching BB after the way he acted during the FA wagon

[Vifam]

If BBMolla is scum like I think I don't gotta reread shit

[Vifam]

I think Reuben's town I don't necessarily agree with what he's saying though

[Vifam]

Jester is still town to me Im not sold on the case

[Vifam]

UNVOTE:

[Vifam]

Nah honestly nvm

BB is the best lynch for today

VOTE: BBMolla

[Vifam]

Honestly we can afford the mislynch Im sick of this

VOTE: TheJester

[Vifam]

Wait that wasn't a hammer? Weak

[Vifam]

Wow I really thought I ended this day

[Vifam]

At this point Id lynch anyone to get on w/ this

[Vifam]

We can afford a mislynch im really not worried about shit

[Vifam]

Are you serious

[Vifam]

Weak ass game tbh

[Vifam]

[Vifam]

That was @ Flubbernugget


but yeah im checking idk what to do personally

[Vifam]

checking in*


idk about Howard I don't really get anything scummy from his posts, he seems like an energetic townie that likes to drive discussion from my end he looks town to me


Im not reallly sure BB is scum either at this point tho

[Vifam]

Bussing in this game means the last remaining scum has to play for the long haul it's not really the smart thing to do

[Vifam]

But honestly FA was the scummiest looking player at that point and no one else was going to be lynched, so it's not like you had much of an option in that situation

[Vifam]

I'll look over the FA wagon, but of the people I remember being on it off top I don't see Reuben being scum with Fire, I don't really see it with Flub either

[Vifam]

Reuben and Flub are town

I'm not sure about anyone else

[Vifam]

Maria is cool

[Vifam]

Nothing has really changed for me regarding Vifam. I gave some thoughts and want to pressure BBmolla for now.

Do you think BB is scum

[Vifam]

Yeah

[Vifam]

How manta days do we have to spare

[Vifam]

VOTE: TierShift

[Vifam]

if this game hits 8 days I'll choke myself

[Vifam]

Still not really sure Howard will flip scum

[Vifam]

I like Tier's replacement tho

UNVOTE:

[Vifam]

Honestly Id feeel sooooooooooo much more comfortable if we did this


VOTE: BBMolla

[Vifam]

VOTE: Howard

[Vifam]

Yeah idk what to tell you guys

[Vifam]

I'm not really certain about anything anymore

[Vifam]

I'm not scum though so it's someone else

[Vifam]

Idk who but it's someone else

[Vifam]

Idk who but it's someone else

Yesterday you said you felt much better with a bb lynch over howard. If we covered our eyes and pretended the howard lynch didn't happen, wouldn't you be voting bb?

@cloud

With day 1 pr we should assume scum asked the mod if maria could self protect. If we haven't lynched an ignited townie and maria hasn't protected anyone we do not have any more mislynches.

Yeah but now we're potentially at lylo and I'm lost

[Vifam]

But if I had to pick a lynch right now it'd be BB

I'm sure it's not Reuben

That's all I got

[Vifam]

There are parts of me that say BB is a ML but that could just be me second guessing myself because it's the obvious choice

His death before mine tho

[Vifam]

Tier's replacement feels town, Tier's posting could come off as weird sometimes but Cloud makes up for it. Also the point about FA trying to make a counter wagon on Tier is solid too, I didn't notice that before

[Vifam]

BB > Cloud > Flub > Reuben

[Vifam]

Oh wait switch Flub and Cloud around and that's how I feel rn

[Vifam]

I mean I was willing to let Tier get lychee before this guy came

[Vifam]

At this point it's the only thing I feel the most confident in now that we're at this point in the game

[Vifam]

Most of it was laziness

[Vifam]

And being unsure if BB was 100% scum after Jester flipped

[Vifam]

How did my flip affect BB's alignment?

After you lynch I skimmed through the game and started battling with the idea of Tier being scum

[Vifam]

I thought it was dumb at first so I put scum bussing out the gate was out the question, I started to consider it more as time went on though because of how BB was playing with lil effort and just the fact that it felt too easy

[Vifam]

Yeah didn't think so

[Vifam]

From my pov if we lynch me we lose if scum targeted right do we can't lynch me so

[Vifam]

VOTE: BBMolla

[Vifam]

This is kind of stupid

[Vifam]

stupid isn't the right word more like directionless

[Vifam]

That's our fault tho

[Vifam]

UNVOTE:

[Vifam]

Maybe I am scum

[Vifam]

Cuz idk

[Vifam]

BB might really be town

I don't think it's Flub tho

[Vifam]

The thing is no one on FA's wagon D1 looks like a viable scumbuddy for FA

[Vifam]

BB wasn't on it but he doesn't feel like surefire scum cuz of his play

[Vifam]

I'm not interested in lynching Cloud

[Vifam]

Yeah we have to do this VOTE: BBMolla

[Vifam]

It's either BB or Flub and Flub reads town so

[Vifam]

+ he doesn't make sense as a scum partner to FA

[Vifam]

It's not me I don't think it's him

[Vifam]

I forgot prods were a thing

[Vifam]

I don't think it's Flub

I really think it's just bb

[Vifam]

You're prob not gonna win

[Vifam]

We don't have that kind of time

It's me or BB and if we lynch me we're prob losing

[Vifam]

I don't wanna lynch Flub @___@

[Vifam]

I see why ppl have their doubts about BB but there's stronger reason to believe everyone else is town

[Vifam]

@vifam just check bb/fire voting patterns, its screaming non-team and teapot is town, i am town, bb should be town, that leaves you and flub, i initially tred flub for the fire push and whatnot but he also voted really badly in the consecutives days and so on idk

Flub's push on FA didn't feel like bussing to me

[Vifam]

@sonia that dude is defending someones i am trying to add to the lynch pool, its 3hrs to deadline and hes getting voted by clear. How does that even make sens as last mafia getting lynched

cuz I skimmed through the game and came to the conclusion the person least likely to be town here all things considered is BB

[Vifam]

10 bucks says he assumed he lost the game already

[Vifam]

I think we'll lose if we lynch flub

[Vifam]

I don't wanna NL tho I'd rather this end one way or another

[Vifam]

I bet 1 of u are scum
Pedit: I doused people pls

Cloud is town it's BB seriously

[Vifam]

:/

[Vifam]

I did it for you Fire :')

[Vifam]

Yeah BB not being here in the last moments won the game for me and FA pretty clutch tbh

[Vifam]

I did it for you Fire :')

Best teammate ever, I had real doubts about it for awhile, but you managed to pull it off.
Well played friend.

I knew buddying you hard day 1 would make people skeptical of us being a team

<3

[Vifam]

but gg vifam

You too man you're a cool guy

[Vifam]

This setup is harder for scum imo you're pretty much fucked if your partner dies D1

[Vifam]

Just be more outgoing probably

[Vifam]

That's what my mom says

[Vifam]

I think scum are 3-1 in this setup now. IMO it's still balanced, but it definitely doesn't have any of the easy clears/guilties that some other formats give you.

This setup is harder for scum imo you're pretty much fucked if your partner dies D1

I don't understand why people consider this setup balanced. It's a 9p setup with only a doc who, if he saves his target, doesn't even know his target is town. There is absolutely no reason not to bus in this setup because if you do it well it clears you from any ties with your partner and not having associatives to investigate induces town apathy.

I don't get how you can say this setup is hard for scum if your partner dies day 1, vifam. If you get towncred from his lynch, you're pretty much set. Compare it to any setup with an investigative, in which you're completely boned. Take the newbie setup for instance, you absolutely need to hit a certain PR night 1 or possibly night 2 to not instalose.

I feel this setup needs a tracker.

If town is on their shit it's way harder for scum I think a tracker makes it too townsided