ACNH's "Void" is actually dumb...

[Flyffel]

Haha, well I don't think that it's dumb. You had your chance to choose a villager from a miles island or other player, but you didn't take it? At that point it doesn't really matter if you get a completely random move in or a void? Also, if you have interacted with other players, you should 100% expect a voided villager.

 

[Hime-sama]

I had my island opened up for people to come and sell their turnips awhile back.

And I had let Victoria go and time traveled back to original day and Freckles had moved in from someone else's island.

That only happened to me once on NH I was island hopping looking for someone didn't find anyone and Bianca moved in.

Just like Freckles I didn't want her but I ended up giving Freckles away for free and Bianca for like two stacks of wood.

 

[Mr_Persona]

I think Nintendo needs to remove that silly rule thing in the game, man I wished they never did that in all past AC games.

 

[Sephiroth]

My friend took BlueBear from me, apparently sue was still in my void over 2 weeks later. My roommate ended up getting her when he had a plot ready so essentially BlueBear went to two people from 1 account.

 

[mintycream]

Whenever I get tired of going to mystery island, I just let the game decide but I’ve gotten 2 voided villagers so far: Eloise and Gloria :/ it’s fine now since I’ll at least try to get their photos but they seem to retain the clothing from their previous island T-T

 

[meggiewes]

I personally can't wait to see which voided villager I'll end up getting. I've interacted with a fair amount of people. I think that Nintendo needs to start thinking about Animal Crossing in a new century. They have already shaken things up with crafting. I see no reason why they couldn't use the next game to completely re-write the rules.

They could probably still do it with ACNH if they wanted to by adding some sort of Real Estate office and letting you have a pick of your void list, clearing your void list, or getting someone who is truly random. I feel like that would be a perfect excuse to bring back the Happy Home Academy crew. Put Lyle in charge of scoring, Lottie in charge of redesigning villager home requests, and put Tom Nook with them to sell us more villager plots and have us buy upgrades to get more styles of bridges, ramps, and exteriors for our houses. Oh well, I can' dream, right?

 

[Mairen]

I don't think many people actually like the void. If someone wanted that villager, then it would have been adopted. I don't want the people I play with to end up with my "leftovers" (probably a kinder way to phrase that, but it seemed the most accurate word). It prevents people from having random move-ins. If there were actually a way of clearing the void, I'd probably feel more forgiving towards it. But I don't really see any positives from this feature at all.

 

[SliceAndDice]

I had TTd a villager out because I was on the hunt for Vesta, went back to my original date and Annalisa the Anteater moved in from someone's void. I wasn't too thrilled because I already made a deal for Vesta and had to cancel it. I hadn't played online with someone for over a week, so Annalisa must have waited to move in at least that long.
I could luckily boot out that Anteater with a campsite visitor.

 

[Sheando]

Haha, well I don't think that it's dumb. You had your chance to choose a villager from a miles island or other player, but you didn't take it? At that point it doesn't really matter if you get a completely random move in or a void? Also, if you have interacted with other players, you should 100% expect a voided villager.

For me the difference is that I’m primarily going back and forth with one other person, someone I know in real life, so getting a void villager isn’t “random,” it’s just getting repeats of every villager he’s allowed to move-out, which makes my town feel less distinct. I would like to have the option of getting a truly random move-in AND having that move-in fill the personality slot I am missing, but that feature is only available to players who don’t use online multiplayer at all.

 

[dahlialia]

I wonder if you could effectively duplicate a villager with the void. Kick out Raymond, then invite 100 people to your island? How many of them would end up with Raymond?

 

[Applebunny]

I wish there was a way of knowing who’s still kicking around in my void and who stuck to people I’ve traded with..

 

[stitchmaker]

Haha, well I don't think that it's dumb. You had your chance to choose a villager from a miles island or other player, but you didn't take it? At that point it doesn't really matter if you get a completely random move in or a void? Also, if you have interacted with other players, you should 100% expect a voided villager.

Yes the void is dumb. Voids are going to islands with 10 villagers and stay until you have a spot opened. In ACNL players with voids visited 10 villager towns to clear the void so players didn't get stuck with them. ACNH should work the same.
I have 2 islands and only visit them. I tried getting villagers from mystery islands but they were repeats from my ACNL towns. I was looking for new villagers. I got stuck with Kody from Island 2. He lives in one of my main ACNL. I'm lucky and was able to kick him out with amiibo cards.
If Nintendo wants customers to buy an extra switch for another island this needs to be fixed.

 

[coderp]

I just miss the fact that I'll never get a random move-in again. Ever. I will never, ever, ever get another one. This disappoints me because I don't really care about popularity, would love to experience villagers of all 'tiers'... Unfortunately, the only types of villagers that are voided are very unpopular... I've ended up with two voided Divas and two voided Queenies. It's terrible. And half the time when someone wants to move, I am without internet and cannot get a replacement the next day... So I just have to say no and reset the 15 day delay. I hate it so much and it makes me not want to interact with anyone :,(

 

[Flyffel]

Yes the void is dumb. Voids are going to islands with 10 villagers and stay until you have a spot opened. In ACNL players with voids visited 10 villager towns to clear the void so players didn't get stuck with them. ACNH should work the same.
I have 2 islands and only visit them. I tried getting villagers from mystery islands but they were repeats from my ACNL towns. I was looking for new villagers. I got stuck with Kody from Island 2. He lives in one of my main ACNL. I'm lucky and was able to kick him out with amiibo cards.
If Nintendo wants customers to buy an extra switch for another island this needs to be fixed.

There is no real difference between going to a Nook's island and taking whoever is there and a random move in. You can't tell me you can't afford a single nook miles ticket?

 

[stitchmaker]

There is no real difference between going to a Nook's island and taking whoever is there and a random move in. You can't tell me you can't afford a single nook miles ticket?

I have 270,000 Nook Miles. When I have a mover I do visit mystery islands and so far I've found repeat/type villagers I don't need.
The same villager was number 1 and 3. I have 2 cranky and 2 snooty villagers. The islands kept giving me cranky and snooty villagers so I let the game pick. At the time I didn't know about 10 villager island getting stuck with a void. I do have the amiibo cards but I like to let the game pick the villager.

 

[0019293893]

wtf I didn’t know that they could randomly move into the void. I thought you had to choose them?

But I also fill them up as quick as possible anyway so I didn’t ever face this problem.

 

[Flyffel]

I have 270,000 Nook Miles. When I have a mover I do visit mystery islands and so far I've found repeat/type villagers I don't need.
The same villager was number 1 and 3. I have 2 cranky and 2 snooty villagers. The islands kept giving me cranky and snooty villagers so I let the game pick. At the time I didn't know about 10 villager island getting stuck with a void. I do have the amiibo cards but I like to let the game pick the villager.

I heard different personality types appear more during certain hours but I haven't looked much into it.

 

[fallenchaoskitten]

(so this is the thread you mentioned)

My friend got Zucker from my void. He was voided on the MAY 18TH, btw. And I had 5 voids since him... he moved onto my friends island yesterday.

 

[Mairen]

I wonder if you could effectively duplicate a villager with the void. Kick out Raymond, then invite 100 people to your island? How many of them would end up with Raymond?

in this case, it would be the first person to visit your island. doesn't matter if 99 more come too, the first person will be who raymond will latch on to until there's space in their town.

 

[AlyssaAC]

I really want to start trading a lot on here, but the void is one of the reasons why I don't want to. I don't want to be stuck with a random villager from someone else's town, but I guess if it happens, it happens. :/