In post 8, Varsoon wrote:All alignments were generated AFTER roles were created.
(Yes I realize this means I should probably retract my "that seems like a scum role" stance which I've taken against Maid Cafe and Taly among others, though I'd like to note still that there are roles which have +EV for scum > +EV for town and that the method of claiming a role is rather important; the claims from Maid Cafe and Taly have not been town.)
And what, pray tell, happens if we get an MC scum lynch and see how MC gained mana?
And then we see these players who seem to have gone out of their way to have done the things enabling it, almost as if there were a secret communication line in place......?
...I think my point comes across. Scum can't deliberately boost one another's mana by any significant margin because any attempt to do so privately would become obvious upon the scumflip of the player generating the mana. And mind you, there are enough players scumreading Maid Cafe that a lynch there is not at all something impossible to obtain...thus. Players generating mana for Maid Cafe with Maid Cafe not outing the method would be too incriminating to the scumteam; they would not play that way.
With the reads in the game thusfar, pretty much the only players who I'd say could realistically get away with it are Chara and Bronya Zaychik. (OnTheMark has enough scumreads where there's the potential for Mathblade to get lynched and they are a competent enough player to be aware of when that will and will not happen. Literally all my townreads are players there is enough reason to scumread that if they were scum they couldn't guarantee they get away with it. Creature people are townreading but if he is scum then he knows that his time is limited and thus that he'll die. And my scumreads are...well. Scumreads of a fairly charismatic player who pushes reads hard. And most of my scumreads are players where I am not alone; there is support behind them. Soooooooo...)
Scum can't really risk blatantly generating mana for a scumbuddy because there is no scum player who is immune to being lynched such that their mana generation method wouldn't be exposed. As a result, it's not really a viable option no matter what, CERTAINLY not for Maid Cafe.
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