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

[lilis]

I voided Jacque before knowing void is a thing. Then a week later I found someone to play with, we went to each other's islands. She was a little behind me on development so she only had a few villagers.

Two weeks later, I went to visit her island again and guess what? Jacque is there. I was so surprised because it was a long time since I let him go.

Not to mention, I was also time traveling when I let Jacque go, so shouldn't the queue clear? Do they clear?

 

[faerie]

I've been wondering if there is a way to clear the void myself. It would suck if they just sit there till they can finally move in.

 

[Tiffany]

I went to someone's island to meet Celeste and got a villager from their void. So Marissa from Viruland Boone says hi.

 

[Sheando]

I really hate this. I play NH with my boyfriend almost every day, and we occasionally visit each other to trade and such. It sucks that if I want to have any interaction with other players at all, I’m permanently locked out of the random move-in mechanic. I would love to have a Snooty villager but I can’t let the game pick one for me; it will always just dump my boyfriend’s move-outs on me if I don’t island hop. We play together in person regularly. I already see his villagers all the time; I want to experience fresh ones of my own, not just get His Village 2.0. Very weird of Nintendo to push online so hard and then guarantee that online play would permanently nullify the option of random move ins.

 

[Nunnafinga]

The other day I was going to adopt Melba from someone on the villager trading board but then I remembered that I still had a villager in my void and I didn't want the person giving Melba away to get a villager that they didn't want.I'm glad I have a lot of Amiibo cards.

 

[stitchmaker]

Nintendo needs to fix voids getting passed to a 10 villager island is they want players to buy a 2nd switch.
In ACNL to get rid of the void visiting a 10 villager town cleared the void and no one got stuck with the villager.

Island 2 had a Kody ask to move and Island 1 stopped visiting. Island 2 got a mover the next day. Both island stayed away from each other until the villagers moved in. Started visiting again thinking it would clear the void.
island 2 moved out Boots using an amiibo. Rex moved out and Stu from Island 1 moved in.
Island 1 had another mover and I wasn't able to find a villager. Let the game pick the villager and Kody from Island 2 moved in.
Kody was over 3 weeks ago.

I want to met new villagers not a void that I shouldn't be getting. I have all the amiibo cards but wanted to see what the game gave me. With Kody I had to amiibo him out because he lives in one of my main ACNL. Did Nintendo test the voids? If they did they failed.

 

[usa-chan]

yeah, the void is 100% worse in acnh, and for no reason too. if nintendo is encouraging a lot of online activity, then they should've implemented a mechanism that allows you to clear your void, whether by visiting full towns or by a certain amount of time passing. i don't understand why they downgraded the void

 

[coderp]

I've visited so many islands and had so many visitors... I wonder if you can queue up more than 1? If so my list is looooooooong... Is there no way to clear your void??? I wanted to get randoms but other people's voided villagers are disproportionately undesirable... like Diva *shudders*

 

[deana]

I just got a switch and started playing the game (less than 1 week) and my friend wants me to visit her island but reading up on the void makes me feel like I shouldn't visit until I can get 10 villagers so I can experience at least some random move ins...

Although it's going to be a while before I can get to 10 villagers and she's impatient because she's been playing for two months already

 

[FraudulentDimetrodon]

I've visited so many islands and had so many visitors... I wonder if you can queue up more than 1? If so my list is looooooooong... Is there no way to clear your void??? I wanted to get randoms but other people's voided villagers are disproportionately undesirable... like Diva *shudders*

I believe the move-in queue should be 4. I talked to someone on this forum who did experiments with both the move-out and move-in queues, and that's the conclusion they came to, and I believe this was also found to be the case in the datamines (the relevant array is MoveInAnimal[4]). I'm guessing that MoveOutAnimal[10] is the move-out queue. I'm not sure if we've figured out how many villagers can go from one move-out queue to a move-in queue at once yet, or whether it's per visit or per player or what.

I'm not sure what the heck the move-out queue is supposed to be doing (because that was glitched, and I think still is glitched), but the move-in queue working like it does basically seems like a consequence of how you can freely place plots and invite villagers at your leisure. In previous games, there's effectively no queue; if there's less than 10 villagers, a villager will move just in immediately. Now, for example, at the beginning of the game, you can invite villagers 3-5 to move in all at once before even placing a plot down. For villagers 7-10, I'm pretty sure you can also invite a villager from a Mystery Tour and invite a camper on the same day (possibly even an adoption invite from another town? Or multiple invites from other towns?) as long as you haven't placed all your plots down yet. There's no way you could set the move-in queue to clear villagers over time without first distinguishing villagers coming from a move-out queue versus those you've invited, so now we can even have voided villagers just waiting forever to move in. It's just kind of ill-thought-out and breaks the pure RNG villagers system and inviting Amiibo.

 

[chibski]

I kicked out Chevre a week ago and today she moved onto my friend's island. Fortunately she was happy about it and only didn't take Chevre because she didn't have an open plot, but we were both surprised.

 

[asuka]

they should just add a way to clear your void like you could in NL. you'd just visit someone with 10 villagers and your void was cleared.

 

[Bethboj]

When I restarted my game someone from here held afew items for me and I ended up with I think 3 of their voids just from going and collecting my items! Now I make sure if I have a free spot I must find someone that day or face the consequences

 

[Le Ham]

Dang, this is good stuff to know. RIP, whoever's getting my Lionel...

Do voided villagers keep their old clothing/furniture when they move to other towns? Or do they reset to original stuff? If there were a way to know how the queue is ordered, you could potentially use the void strategically to give villagers to people after they'd already moved out without being claimed. Definitely not as foolproof or safe a process as giving away villagers in boxes, but would be interesting to play with lol.

Villager warfare: get ugly villagers just to void them and deliberately send them to people you don't like. Oof

 

[Aleigh]

Lucy was voided almost a month or so ago and she showed up on my friend's island who hasn't come to my island (or hasn't had me on her island) in weeks now. We were both surprised

 

[Bethboj]

Dang, this is good stuff to know. RIP, whoever's getting my Lionel...

Do voided villagers keep their old clothing/furniture when they move to other towns? Or do they reset to original stuff? If there were a way to know how the queue is ordered, you could potentially use the void strategically to give villagers to people after they'd already moved out without being claimed. Definitely not as foolproof or safe a process as giving away villagers in boxes, but would be interesting to play with lol.

Villager warfare: get ugly villagers just to void them and deliberately send them to people you don't like. Oof

I have Rolf on my island and he was a void from someone on here, he definitely wears the clothes he was gifted.
Not so sure about how the void queue works though, Rolf had been kicked out because I was getting Julian from this person. I got Julian and the next plot I had free was claimed by Rolf. But then the NEXT plot I had free got claimed by Simon who was from the same island as Rolf but has been voided before Rolf had!
I wish I knew how it worked! Funny you should mention about voiding villagers to unload them to someone on purpose, I had thought about how funny it would be to void villagers with ugly clothing aka the muscle suits, and then getting ripped off by someone via reddit or something, but being totally fine with it knowing the next 4 spots they have free with be taken up by my trash talking muscle suit wearing villagers all with the catchphrase “was it worth it”

 

[mayorofwaldosia]

raise a glass to every unlucky soul stuck with a voided villager they didn't want- this one's for you

 

[Le Ham]

Actually y'know what would be hilarious? If villagers, when they've been voided and moved to other islands multiple times in a row, could show you their passport that lists every island they've ever been to. So then like say you get someone's Barold or whatever and he just has pages on pages of the old islands he's terrorized. Would create a whole new dimension to villager trading, just pass the potato and see how far it goes

 

[Bethboj]

Actually y'know what would be hilarious? If villagers, when they've been voided and moved to other islands multiple times in a row, could show you their passport that lists every island they've ever been to. So then like say you get someone's Barold or whatever and he just has pages on pages of the old islands he's terrorized. Would create a whole new dimension to villager trading, just pass the potato and see how far it goes

I could imagine that
“Ahh Graham, I see you’ve been causing chaos on... oh seven different islands this month”

 

[Bioness]

The void sucks, it can hold 4 villagers, seems to never expire, breaks amiibos, breaks people's ideal towns with disproportionately unwanted villagers, and at the start of the game was breaking the game.

Actually y'know what would be hilarious? If villagers, when they've been voided and moved to other islands multiple times in a row, could show you their passport that lists every island they've ever been to. So then like say you get someone's Barold or whatever and he just has pages on pages of the old islands he's terrorized. Would create a whole new dimension to villager trading, just pass the potato and see how far it goes

That actually sounds like a nice and fun feature. Unfortunately villagers seem to forget any island before their previous one.