Giveaway Call me clueless but I need help! How do you trade villagers?

[MochiMo]

I'm completely new to this site & I'm just now getting into AC:NL big time (after 2-3 years LOL) and I am clueless as to doing this. How does it work? Cycling? Not quite sure what that means, either.

Sorry. I don't mean to sound like I know nothing buuuuut.

Thanks!

 

[Grin]

Cycling is when a person uses their entire town to make villagers move in and move out quickly, using time travel (setting the time on their DS forward so that villagers will move). They do this to get their own dreamies, while selling all the other villagers they don't need.

When you trade, you just go to another person's town and take one of their villagers, and then the other person comes to your town and does the same. Of course both of the traded villagers have to be in boxes - that's the only way you can ask them to move into your town.

 

[Seroja]

You can read about everything here.

 

[Vile]

Grin's explanation's seem right to me, but I realized if I were 100% new to this some things would need further explanation still...

"In boxes" is a phrase that comes from when you enter a villager's home the day they are moving out. It'll just be a bunch of cardboard boxes strewn about as if all their belongings were stuffed into them as they prepare to move. If a villager is at this point, they will be GONE from your town the next day and there is no way to convince them to stay. In this state is when someone from another town can go into your town and ask the villager to move to theirs.

Generally if you want to "trade" villagers, you and the other trader both have villagers that intend to move. You would both get your respective villagers "in boxes", then take turns entering each other's towns convincing the villager to move to their town. This also requires you to have at the very most NINE villagers occupying your town, as 10 is the maximum. If you have 10 currently, no other villager can move in. So ideally, both traders have 9/10 villagers, and each have one villager intending to move out.

I don't know if this helps at all. Whatever. I'm barely on belltree anymore anyway.

 

[Grin]

Haha thanks Vile, yeah I guess it's difficult to explain when you don't know how much detail you have to go into Your explanations are better.