i feel like a common problem/question/thread around is here is that: "____ won't leave" or "how do i get someone to think of moving out"... meanwhile, here i am, every day a new villager having a thought bubble and i'm just ignoring because a.) i don't wanna hear that they wanna leave, b.) i don't know who i should let go to replace with other dreamies
I had this problem until I decided to get Whitney in boxes yesterday, sold her and tt'd her out.. Then I fell asleep while hunting on islands, and now I have Rex random move in... I hate how they let random move-ins occur the very next day. Give me a break.
Oh yea, I've been collecting NMTs to look for Erik, my one and only baby boy from New Leaf, but right now I'm having trouble deciding who to let go to make room for him...
So I'm just going with my gut, when I feel it' time for someone to leave, they'll leave, me and Erik will reunite someday
marina - a favorite, but her downside is she has a starter home. in one hand, i like to keep her as a remembrance that she was on my island very early on
maple - first cub i've had in game that's not pocket camp (gc, nl, nh) and honestly so cute, she just looks huggable!
fauna - she is a sweetheart, but when i scan diana in, i'll have 2 deers and i can't decide if i'll love that or would make me want more variety
at this point, whoever just gives me their first pic is going i guess...
Lucky for me I've only got 7 dream faves and even more lucky I have the amiibos for some (Moose's amiibo was dirt cheap because no one else likes him!) so I'm happy to let them and the other villagers I like but don't love move in and out.
I’ve just been playing it by ear based on how attached I feel at the time. All my favorites asked to move out twice before anyone else did, so I finally let Dotty go yesterday just because she was the first non-favorite to ask and I REALLY want some new faces. I always feel so sad, though! I end up liking everyone in my town by the time they leave.
Definitely. I get attached to almost any villager and it makes me feel bad having to make them move out of my island, even if it’s a villager I’m not very attached to.
i feel this i got attached to all my villagers i got in the beginning and now that i wanna start getting my dreamies its been hard like i have tom as my cranky and i eventually wanna get fang but im so attached to tom the only thing that makes it easier is i got his amiibo and fang also has an education speciality.
whats really been making me suffer is miss tabby she is the last of my starter villagers and i think i have the highest friendship with her rn and ive even been considering her just staying for good even tho she wouldnt fit the overall theme of my island bc i love her
I am feeling this as well. My favorite part of the game is probably getting new villagers, but I like most of the ones I have now. The villager trading economy/popularity tiers also complicate matters. I don't personally care about having popular villagers, but whenever I think of letting someone go, I also consider how much work it would be to reacquire them if I wanted them back later.
A problem for me when I played NL is I got so attached to all of my villagers, that I wasn't getting to experience the excitement of seeing a new face.
So now, I have my few that I KNOW I will never let leave, and I have the rest who I will let go when they ask, although I am aiming to get their framed pictures first. I succeeded in getting Pierce and Celia's photos, and they were both starters with the basic houses, so just waiting for them to ask to leave. I will miss them, but darn do I love to island hop!
I’m currently facing a dilemma because I don’t want more than one of a species. Katt is my starter, and I’ve become so fond of her it’s ridiculous. Then there’s Lolly, who is an all time favorite, the perfect Normal imo, and the first villager I encountered on a NMI. Honestly, I was almost upset when I saw her, because I knew it’d put me in an awful spot of having to choose between them eventually.
My partner keeps trying to persuade me not to let either leave—because he’s convinced I’d actually cry and thus force him to adopt them out of sympathy xD
Yeah.
I currently have 3 lazies and made the tough decision to let Erik go when he asks.
I do love him but he's one of my starting villagers with the DIY interior house and is pretty much a copy-paste version of Sherb dialogue and behavior wise.
I do wish we had a few extra spots for villagers. I do want to have more on my Island and feel like 10 is kind of limiting (I know some might disagree) but at least keep it optional for players.
THIS. I have four smugs and no normals. I can't seem to connect with colton since i just like the others more. rod, my jock... i adore him, but the more i see of dom the more i really want him!
the decision with colton's a lot easier, but i'm still not sure in the case that i might regret it later, and i know that since both of them aren't as popular they might not go to loving homes and that kind of crushes me. honestly i need to talk to all of my villagers a lot and figure it out (i'll probably also visit someone with dom and lolly or whatever other normal i choose (she's optimal but i haven't looked through the list in a bit so i might adjust my choice later, it depends) to figure out if i really want them enough to let some of my villagers go. however, i'm going to keep from TTing (optimally) so it's going to be a much longer process. i've been getting normal campsite villagers left and right though, so i'm sure someone i really like will pop up again (or lolly again, i really like her and felt so bad when i didn't nab her from the campsite).
there's also the part where the more i see of stitches the more i want him in town... i've never been too crazy about him but with all the superhero art on reddit and other stuff i'm just melting for him. but then i'd have to let go of julian... i don't know if i could ever do that! and then there's pietro, who was barely left out of my list, who i really want but i'd also have to leave out julian. aghhhh, everything's so hard to decide!
i've been thinking of putting up a poll or something, i just haven't motivated myself to really think about committing to moving anyone out.
making a full dreamy list before actually obtaining any of them was a blessing and a curse, it was nice to have a set plan but now i'm rethinking a lot of it
Same feeling. I got rid of almost all the "new villagers" I have to make way for my true dreamies and I'm pretty satisfied with it, but I feel like I am missing another normal. I already have 3 and never had 4 of the same personality (that's too much for me). Problem is, I can't decide who to move out and at this point, I'm running out of choices.
While I don't hate any of my villagers, I do only have 4 that I see as staying in permanently right now.
There's a 5th a really like (Muffy), but she has her dumb starting house. I have decided I want to let her go. I hope to get Muffy back one day, but if I don't, I don't.
I wish they could move out faster. Only getting 1 move out about every 2 weeks is so slow.
Yeah. I'd be kind of okay with letting Scoot go, especially now that I have Dom, but I've grown attached to everybody else. I have a set of characters I really want to have, but it's going to be hard letting some of the others go.
Me. Letting Genji and Marina go was painful and now I have to choose someone else to move out so I can get Chief/a cranky villager. I wish we had more villager space!
like i have tom as my cranky and i eventually wanna get fang but im so attached to tom 
I feel like I love them all so much. Why it gotta be like this sometimes.
