do random move-ins still happen if no plots are available?

[dino]

weird question but there has been a lot of questions on the board lately re villagers moving in on paths and time traveling using the ds system to re-place paths to kick their boots into proper plots and it got me thinking.

if you have a random move in on a day after you've gone down to 8 villagers and you never loaded your mayor bc you are a smart cookie - could u possibly tt back to the day before, place paths literally all over your town and then there's no where for a random move in to slot in?

(secondary question, is tt backwards to re-place paths to guide random move ins even possible?)

or, - actually, is it infinitely worse if you DO place the paths bc then they just randomly plot anywhere on top of paths

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[Loriii]

I have a feeling that the random villagers are going to move on top of the paths (like what you've said on the last part)

I'm not 100% sure about your second question but I think you can TT back to previous day to edit your paths as long you never loaded your mayor on a new day even if you're expecting for a random move-in since the previous day is already saved or still saved no matter what. The plot won't just appear out of nowhere.

 

[crossinganimal]

I tried this before. Layed out paths all over my town and only leaving out a few spaces where a house could move in. Only later while plot resetting I notice that the spaces I wanted them to move into where too close to other things, so they couldn?t move into those spaces after all... so the villager just plotted over a path that I layed and not in the free spaces I designed. They just don?t give a f**** lol

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

They'll still move in and if you blocked everything they would for sure plot wherever their little hearts desire, but if you tt backwards a day it still counts as a day forward so they'll have plotted already.

 

[LinkToTheWorld]

They will still plot on paths if there's not other space, it doesn't prevent random move ins unfortunately

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Oh and you can tbt back to place paths, i've done it several time when I've missed spaces

 

[dino]

ughhhh. i'm so glad of the plot&paths addition to the game, but also so sad by these stories of it not working, more sad than like hearing old plot reset stories bc it's supposed to work...now...

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They'll still move in and if you blocked everything they would for sure plot wherever their little hearts desire, but if you tt backwards a day it still counts as a day forward so they'll have plotted already.

They will still plot on paths if there's not other space, it doesn't prevent random move ins unfortunately

hmmmm

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Oh and you can tbt back to place paths, i've done it several time when I've missed spaces

conflicting experiences? is it just if you tt back using the game clock that it doesn't work, we think?