I think I am going to have to update that Recon report a lot; I've finally gotten to game talk with a bunch of the players and am re-evaluating things quite a lot. The main thing is that Kate appears to be an immediate target rather than a later one - nobody really seems to want to hide behind a gamebot - and Pikachu is being a lot more social with other players than he was being with me, so he's very unlikely to be an early boot.
It seems that Rust has charmed basically everyone already and I'm not sure a partnership with him would be on particularly even footing, so I'm starting to look a lot more seriously at partnering with Chan instead. We've had a great conversation in my eyes and he seems to have a much lower profile, and not be quite as universally adored.
As for where I am favourability-wise, I'd say most of them have me somewhere in the middle of the pack, which is exactly where I want to be. Rust actually outright told me I was in the 'goldilocks zone' of not being so sociable that I'm a threat, but being good to talk to, which was... a bit of a backhanded compliment but hey, it's what I'm going for and I'm glad he's being honest about not seeing me as the most social out there
For now I'm just going to try to direct things towards game talk with every player while keeping up some background small talk, make them feel like they can trust me due to intel sharing. And I'm probably just going to push the narrative of this easy vote on Kate, since it keeps the tribe strong and everyone will likely agree.