So I tried to make my bad game more like my civ game (like many people do) but I could not pull it off. So I intentionally did the opposite, and darkened my civ game a bit, and it works for me. I think I still am obvious when I am civ (it can be frustrating being constantly suspected for trivia as a civ when my bad game is generally so much cleaner than when I am civ; I don't filter when I am civ, I just blurt shit out, lol, yet game after game people think smooth me is good and dopey me is bad) but I did it to myself.