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ACNL: Villager Plot Reset Error/Glitch(?)

Almond97

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Hey guys! So something bizarre happened to me, and I'm not sure if it's just my game messing with me.

I'm well aware of the TTing methods for resetting a villager plot. I know TTing isn't the best method of playing the game, but I'm currently in the past (July 31 in-game date) due to a hiatus I took over the summer, and I didn't want to risk any of my favorite villagers moving out.

On July 29, I had Phoebe as my camper, and got her to accept to move in. Normally the process of a camper moving in is that it takes one day after they accept before a plot appears the next day. So I TTed a day forward (July 30), did whatever I had to do before resetting my time to 5:55 am since the town automatically restarts at 6 am to a new day (which would have been July 31). Upon starting a new game after 6 am, I found where she plotted her house, and didn't quite like where it was, so I did the plot reset trick by rinsing and repeating. But when I entered the game again, her plot was still in the same plot, AND her house was already there. I restarted a couple times, but to no avail, her house remained. I also took note that the date remained on July 30, even though it was past 6 am when it should have automatically updated the town to the next day. I ended sucking up to where her house was and continued on with my game, but I don't know if this is a one-time thing or simply an error. Any feedback would be helpful! :)
 
Did you make sure to load your mayor account at 5:55AM July 31st, save, quit, wait until 6:00AM, and then create a whole new character?

If so, then I'm not sure what the problem could be. Is there a lot of PWPs scattered around your town? If so, then the locations in which villagers could be placed might be scarce. When I was placing my final villager Tom (my town has 28/30 PWPs evenly placed around my town at the time), I noticed that he would often place his house in only one of four different locations because there wasn't any other applicable spot for him to move in. There were times when he'd place his house in the same spot 4-5 times in a row too.
 
Yeah, I made sure to do so. I'm just confused why the date remained the same and that her plot was already there, house included, even when I haven't saved my game yet with the new character.

My town doesn't have much PWPs; I'm in the process of trying to figure out what kind of layout I want for my town, and I cleared out tons of trees so there's plenty of space. I'm lucky that none of my villagers have plotted their house on my trees or flowers, but it still urks me a bit when they plot their house at a spot that I do plan on making something out of it.
 
I wish I could help more, but I too am stumped as to why the plot resetting method didn't work for you ><.
 
Nah, it's alright. :D I'm very grateful that you replied! xD I often see people face problems when they TT to plot reset, so I was just wondering if I'm losing my head over this or if someone has experienced this before.

Also, I should mention I TT via in-game rather than going to System Settings, so I don't know if that's a factor that altered my plot reset, although I had no problem TTing by changing the time and date with Isabelle.

But once again, thanks! :)
 
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