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MZero posted...

First of all, weren't you scum the last two games? I can't exactly explain why, but it feels unnatural to be comparing your current playstyle as town to previous scum games. Might be nothing but I wanted to point it out.

I was town D1 of Xenoblade mafia, so I'm not only comparing myself to scum games. But also I'm not really talking about anything alignment specific. I think I had trouble leading the game in a direction I wanted. I would like my influence to be clearer and easier to follow for other people regardless of my alignment.

MZero posted...

As for my question, what role could Sheep have claimed that you would have said didn't match with him following your soft claim? Since you said Vanilla made sense, I'm wondering what wouldn't have.

I think I did say this when I unvoted, but I think if scum Sheep had a manufactured scum claim that he was trying to jump on my soft claim with, it would be something that lends him an advantage if he's caught doing something. So if he has a role that visits people, and is afraid of a tracker/watcher, then he might claim something with movement associated with it. Maybe he claims a Psychic so that no one will visit him. Maybe following Ulti's suggestion of something crazy like Paranoid Gun Owner, though I don't know if that's a banned role in B8 or not. Or maybe even just claims to be a Miller but didn't want to claim it outright, and was hoping I would same-time claim with him if he thought I was trying to claim Miller. Though I think we would have outright killed him if he claimed Miller there.

I think most of these examples are probably bad except the first one, which is also the one I mentioned with my unvote. I think claiming Vanilla doesn't do anything to influence night actions like a lot of these other claims would, which is why it's less likely to be a scum trying to influence night actions to avoid detection.