I think I'm better as town. Although my record suggests my town play in newbie games is some of the worst on site. My town play in non-newbie games has a decent record. Scum record is pretty bad right now, although I think my scum play isn't too bad usually :/
I think the setup has been somewhat laid out to us. I assume other people's pms did so too:
Players have a nationality - I'm guessing people are either Soviet or American (maybe some third parties who are neither), the nationality is not reflective of being "scum" or town though, since players are just trying to eliminate threats to peace. Each nationality will have some players who are threats to peace (and aligned with players within their nationality, and possibly third parties, ie: cuban scum allied with soviet scum). That's my interpretation of game setup as it is. So, there can be soviets and americans co-existing with a town win as long as threats to peace from both nationalities (and possibly other nationalities) are dead.
Because I keep seeing you pop up in my games.