I island hop quite a lot and I’ve seen Marina over 10 and I’ve seen Merengue over 5 times while island hopping. It’s always the same villagers I see again and again!! It’s so frustating, I know it’s rng for who you meet, but honestly it doesn’t feel like it
Always seeing the same villagers on mystery islands
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I’ve been thinking the same way. Maybe there are certain villagers that everyone’s game is
more likely to encounter kind of like how the game seems to mostly give you furniture you already have instead of something new. Every time I hunt there seems to be the usual villagers that show up for me like Boone, Angus and Pancetti.
more likely to encounter kind of like how the game seems to mostly give you furniture you already have instead of something new. Every time I hunt there seems to be the usual villagers that show up for me like Boone, Angus and Pancetti.
AshdewCrossing
Senior Member
The game rolls for species first, then villager. That means you'd essentially have a 1/35 * 1/3 (0.9%) chance of seeing any octopus as opposed to 1/35 * 1/23 (0.1%) chance of seeing a cat, for example.
Yupp...
There are only 3 Octopi villagers and I believe about 6 Rhino ones, which is why you're likely to encounter them more often.
I really do wish it was impossible to get repeats on the same day. That really is unfair.
There are only 3 Octopi villagers and I believe about 6 Rhino ones, which is why you're likely to encounter them more often.
I really do wish it was impossible to get repeats on the same day. That really is unfair.
That would be a game changer. I'm totally down with it.
LEGIT! It takes away the fun of island hopping :[[
Feraligator
Senior Member
Yeah the other day I went island hopping for the first time in 2 months and got Elvis 3 times in a row and Flo twice and I only hopped between 20 islands.
It takes away from the realism as well, how can you find someone on one specific island and then suddenly on a totally different one? And they completely forget about you as well. There should be something to stop repeats in one day.
It takes away from the realism as well, how can you find someone on one specific island and then suddenly on a totally different one? And they completely forget about you as well. There should be something to stop repeats in one day.
moon_child
Senior Member
After wasting several hundred NMT tickets trying to find decent villagers, I am highly skeptical of the RNG because there’s just too many repeats. And the species that show up are almost always gorillas, cows, hippos, mice and those who are rarely wanted. There were a few decent ones here and there but I don’t think it’s worth it to waste so many hard earned miles on its RNG.
This is an interesting theory.
I wonder if there is another factor that we don't know about yet. Like airport colour or something.
I actually would not like this. I passed up Marina (she showed up twice in a row too lol) and Merengue partly because I already had two Normal villagers. However, if I kick out one of my Normal villagers and see those cuties (or Fauna) I WILL take them.
To each their own, it's not like you wouldn't be encountering them again, even if the repeats were to end just for 24hrs and can reset the next day but that's just me lol
The repeats ending for 24 hours would be fine!
greenvoldemort
the rough stone is inside
ive had marina and merengue repeats aswell?? at this point it should be a conspiracy theory.. but in all seriousness, i think the problem stops if u time skip a few hours back or forwards?? or at least for me it does
