3) I do not understand why Faust felt the need to claim here. What are they actually doing? Nothing! The other skum faction now knows what... not to kill faust? It doesn't really matter what his alignment is. It also of course comes out as super towny... which is something that faust literally never cares about.
People were starting to vote for me. I would not be able to dispel that suspicion without claiming. As UoS said on D2 already, I looked like I was manipulating people... because well I did try that. Without context people would rightfully read that as scummy.
Second, Ferengi claim is beneficial to some extent, as we can ensure that the SK Cop investigates someone who isn't already guaranteed to be non-SK. I debated whether this was worth claiming for back in D1, but decided it wasn't then. Now the potential target pool is smaller and remvoing more people from it more effective, and did I mention I had to claim anyway?
It's also plain wrong to say that I don't care about being towny. I care about being towny all the time as any alignment. I get positively giddy when I make a play makes me look like town. I'm sure you can find lots of evidence for this.
5) Voting actions on Awaclus make sense as town, but they also make sense for someone in Ferengi that is skum knowing Awaclus was Town (one less to deal with).
A scum!Ferengi would not know that Awaclus is town. Also scum would much rather get rid of some player with an actual chance of being a dangerous PR.
6) This is exactly the point in time of the game I would expect a skum team to make a bold play in order to dictate lynch candidates, or at the minimum remove themselves from the pool.
Where does my post dictate lynch candidates? It should also be obvious rereading me that the decision to make this play was made D2, not D3.
I completely disagree that this claim was helpful. It has told us essentially nothing. It has just given skum that is not apart of Faust's team a reason to NOT target Faust.
It is good if scum has incentive not to target me. That makes it more likely that they will target other scum.
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