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[Jinglefruit]

I guess you can only get 1 of the special birthday items per character per birthday? I just got the birthday candles item. I had a few villagers mail me presents, but they were all regular furniture. The birthday candles is an interesting lamp-like item but I really wanted the cake or the table...

Pretty sure that is the case. I only got the Birthday cake hat for mine, and didn't even know there was a whole set then. xP
Annoyingly you only get one of the birthday set items if you are best friends with a villager too. ~ on some of my alts, even though I'd spoken to a few villagers a coulpe of times they all just got regular items. 3:

 

[Sheepish]

One of my villagers said Mallary was moving out (yay!) so I rushed up to her and she didn't ping so I tried the 5 minute swim trick but she didn't ping either? I tried a few times but only villagers asking to change their catchphrases pinged. Is there any other trick? And will she move out without telling me if I somehow 'missed' her ping?

Save and quit, then load your save again. Run straight to her, avoiding anyone else, and she should do the 'ping' regarding her leaving.
But yeah, even if you don't get her to do that, she'll still leave. Except you won't know when until Isabelle notifies you that she's in boxes on the loading screen.

 

[DJStarstryker]

Pretty sure that is the case. I only got the Birthday cake hat for mine, and didn't even know there was a whole set then. xP
Annoyingly you only get one of the birthday set items if you are best friends with a villager too. ~ on some of my alts, even though I'd spoken to a few villagers a coulpe of times they all just got regular items. 3:

Gah. I need to befriend the animals with my alts then to try to get the other birthday items. Or, at least, for trading fodder if I get dupes!

 

[janjan]

Is it possible to become "best friends" with villagers that you get from someone else's town?
I feel like I can't connect as well with them as the ones that I've gotten from the start or the ones that move in themself or campsite :/ or is it just me!?

Kind of bugging me

 

[Superpenguin]

Is it possible to become "best friends" with villagers that you get from someone else's town?
I feel like I can't connect as well with them as the ones that I've gotten from the start or the ones that move in themself or campsite :/ or is it just me!?

Kind of bugging me

Yes.

 

[Sheepish]

Is it possible to become "best friends" with villagers that you get from someone else's town?
I feel like I can't connect as well with them as the ones that I've gotten from the start or the ones that move in themself or campsite :/ or is it just me!?

Kind of bugging me

Yes. I got Ken from someone else, and he gave me his picture just yesterday. In fact, he gave it to me much more quickly than any of the other villagers who have been in my town since the beginning.

I guess it's the fact that they mention their old village a lot that bothers you?

 

[janjan]

Yes. I got Ken from someone else, and he gave me his picture just yesterday. In fact, he gave it to me much more quickly than any of the other villagers who have been in my town since the beginning.

I guess it's the fact that they mention their old village a lot that bothers you?

Yeah I think so :/
They don't ever forget their old town right?
I mean has Ken mentioned it less after you've gotten super close to him?

 

[Superpenguin]

Yeah I think so :/
They don't ever forget their old town right?
I mean has Ken mentioned it less after you've gotten super close to him?

They will always remember their old town.

 

[Sheepish]

Yeah I think so :/
They don't ever forget their old town right?
I mean has Ken mentioned it less after you've gotten super close to him?

No, I don't think so.
Ken hardly talked about his old town even before I befriended him, though. I guess I got lucky with regards to that.

 

[Mao]

Have you been giving her the silent treatment? If you haven't talked to her in a while, she won't ping at you. But I'm pretty sure that she will be moving out, regardless of whether you talk to her to confirm. You just won't know the date.

I don't play much, and when I do, I don't talk to her as I can't find her and I don't really like her either...

 

[Brabus E73]

When does the summer season end? I feel like I've totally shot myself in the foot by comin' down with the resetting disease so I'm pretty sure I'm about to miss out on all the rare summer fish/bugs if I can't get it together soon LOL (//.-)

 

[Superpenguin]

When does the summer season end? I feel like I've totally shot myself in the foot by comin' down with the resetting disease so I'm pretty sure I'm about to miss out on all the rare summer fish/bugs if I can't get it together soon LOL (//.-)

Summer basically ends September 1st. However, the island is ALWAYS in Summer, so you can look for rare bugs there. Just note that the Scorpion, Firefly, Tarantula, and possible others will not be found there.

 

[Brabus E73]

Summer basically ends September 1st. However, the island is ALWAYS in Summer, so you can look for rare bugs there. Just note that the Scorpion, Firefly, Tarantula, and possible others will not be found there.

Cool, thanks for the exact date. So if I'm understanding correctly, does that mean we can catch the sharks and say, a red snapper there with it being summer?

 

[Superpenguin]

Cool, thanks for the exact date. So if I'm understanding correctly, does that mean we can catch the sharks and say, a red snapper there with it being summer?

Yes.

Red Snappers are available all year, though, so you can catch one in your town whenever.

 

[Darkprophet]

Can you re-order items from Club Tortimer at the machine in Nookling's store?

 

[Sheepish]

Can you re-order items from Club Tortimer at the machine in Nookling's store?

No. None of the items you get from the Island are re-orderable.

 

[Brabus E73]

Yes.

Red Snappers are available all year, though, so you can catch one in your town whenever.

Great. Thanks so much for your help.

 

[Janna]

So I'm going to have 8 villagers once again soon once Frita moves out. When you're under 9 again there's a chance that a new villager will move in but it's not 100% every day from what I noticed, since I was at 8 for a few days before someone finally decided to move in and bump me up to 9.

To avoid bad villager house placements, do I need to create a new character every day, make sure no one moved into a bad spot, go through the house process and save? Seems a bit tedious to do every day. I just don't want another situation like with Curlos who moved in right in front of my house.

 

[Jinglefruit]

So I'm going to have 8 villagers once again soon once Frita moves out. When you're under 9 again there's a chance that a new villager will move in but it's not 100% every day from what I noticed, since I was at 8 for a few days before someone finally decided to move in and bump me up to 9.

To avoid bad villager house placements, do I need to create a new character every day, make sure no one moved into a bad spot, go through the house process and save? Seems a bit tedious to do every day. I just don't want another situation like with Curlos who moved in right in front of my house.

Yes, that's the best way to go about it. Or you could spend 1 day resetting over and over until you get a villager plot you like or someone you want in your campsite. Then you can bring yourself up to 9 villagers sooner.

Also if you streetpass someone you can still end up with an unwanted 10th villager without warning. ~ but if you discover them by making a new character before hand you can TT back a day and invite a villager moving out of another town to prevent the streetpass villager from moving in. ~ I was lucky enough to catch Charlise in the act last week.

 

[Janna]

Oh, okay! Thanks so much And ugh, luckily I almost never go out with my 3DS haha