I was thinking today of things I'd like to see in the new Animal Crossing switch game (when Nintendo finally decide to make one). And I think I may have come up with a way to solve all of our problems.
Moving forms.
Each time a villager wants to move into your town, you get a form sent to your town hall. This form tells you the name and type of villager moving in and a possible three locations in your town where they'd like to place their house. You could then either deny this form and the villager wouldn't move in, or accept it and pick one of the three locations the villager suggested for them to place their house. You could still keep the game system that tries to keep an equal amount of personalities in your town it just means they would have to be approved before they placed down a plot.
But this would also work in reverse too! Villagers wanting to move would have to first send you a moving form that you would then have to accept or deny before they could move. This would solve so many problems for players like myself that don't have the time to play daily and have lost multiple villagers in the past due to them slipping through the net and being in boxes before the mayor found out. It could be set up so that if the form wasn't replied to within a set amount of days that the villager just moved out of town anyway but it would at least give players more of a chance to pick up on villagers moving requests.
Moving forms.
Each time a villager wants to move into your town, you get a form sent to your town hall. This form tells you the name and type of villager moving in and a possible three locations in your town where they'd like to place their house. You could then either deny this form and the villager wouldn't move in, or accept it and pick one of the three locations the villager suggested for them to place their house. You could still keep the game system that tries to keep an equal amount of personalities in your town it just means they would have to be approved before they placed down a plot.
But this would also work in reverse too! Villagers wanting to move would have to first send you a moving form that you would then have to accept or deny before they could move. This would solve so many problems for players like myself that don't have the time to play daily and have lost multiple villagers in the past due to them slipping through the net and being in boxes before the mayor found out. It could be set up so that if the form wasn't replied to within a set amount of days that the villager just moved out of town anyway but it would at least give players more of a chance to pick up on villagers moving requests.