"Don't look too town as scum"

[callforjudgement]

I blame the scum kill for towns being bad. After a few days, players who are playing well have all gone and only the townies who are struggling are left.

[callforjudgement]

It's worked for me before now (I started playing to my scum meta by accident in a town game, realised it, but it seemed to be working so I just continued).

That said, the game was Nightless and symmetrical, so there was no reason

not

to look as town as possible, regardless of alignment.

[callforjudgement]

I don't think there's any particular reason to play against your scum meta as scum, in of itself.

What you have to do is play against what people

think

your scum meta is, regardless of whether they're right or wrong in that. (So for example, if people generally believe you to be inactive as scum and post-spammy as town, it's correct to spam posts, especially if you're scum. This is regardless of what your play is actually like.)

A side-effect of this is that you have no reason to change your scum meta until someone else figures out what it is.

[callforjudgement]

The only reason to avoid looking too town as scum is if you think it'll give you problems explaining why you haven't been nightkilled.

That might be a valid reason in some metas, but right now, people basically never attempt nightkill analysis, so there's no real reason to try to confound it.