Dealing before the game

Hello,

I have a question,

There was a situation where during choosing seats before final, player offered a Vp to another player for take exact seat.

Is it allowed?

I know that discussions arę ok according to this

groups.google.com/g/rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad/c/ma8z8iBgHEU/m/j6EWZ_p_1iAJ

But i'm not sure about this kind of "trading"

I feel like more appropriate phrasing of this question is:
1) Is the moment when seating is chosen part of the game?
2) What (if any) discussion is allowed during seating between players?
Examples:
Player A tells Player B that if they choose to sit as Player’s A predator, they will rush their vampires from turn 1 and will not allow them to play and therefore encourages them to sit somewhere else.

Player A asks if they sit crosstable from player B, will they be generally supportive for each other when voting.

Player A offers Player B to sit as their predator and not go forward until they score a VP in exchange for a genuine attempt from player B to get VP as fast as possible. Rationale being - Player A can’t deal with B’s prey on their own (e.g. too much intercept, vote lock etc.)

Players are aware of a particularly explosive deck on the table, e.g. Tupdogs, Chameleon, Clow Car and discuss of there is a way to sit that will help them against such deck and what that would entail, e.g. Player A (vote deck) offers Player B (block deck) to deal damage crosstable against their prey if they sit next to Clown Car player and block their Embraces.

Etc etc

The point being - all of the above would have been generally acceptable during the game as pretty standard deals, I would presume. Would the same be allowed during seating selection?

OP’s question may suggest the offer of a VP does not bring any benefit to the player offering the VP and is made purely to help somebody else to win.