I don't have a dreamie list. For a while I was getting frustrated on tours because I was looking for specific personalities and not finding them, getting frustrated, and leaving it to chance (and often winding up with a voided villager who was not the needed personality instead of a random move-in). I finally got a lazy last week when Hugh was in my campsite and kicked out Hamlet, so I finally had at least one of every villager for the first time since early April. (Yay I can get the "pride" reaction soon!)
Chaddar, my second smug, moved out on Saturday, so yesterday I went island hopping with one of every personality already in my town, so no pressure to find something specific. I did have a slight preference for a male villager since I try to keep my gender balance even, but for the right female villager, I would have gone 6/4. I wound up doing four trips; I had 8 tickets in my inventory and I told myself I would use only those and then leave it to chance, even though I have almost 200k Nook Miles racked up. Eight is a lot of trips and I don't have that kind of patience.
Trip 1 was Sandy, she seemed perfectly nice but wasn't cute enough to upset my gender balance. Then I got Zucker, and decided to pass him over. (I can't handle having walking, talking takoyaki on my island. Takoyaki is delicious and I stopped eating it because I've read too much about the intelligence of octopuses for me to feel comfortable eating them anymore so having walking, talking cooked octopus on my island is just too much for me.) Then I got Miranda (eh, I do want a duck villager at some point, but she wasn't doing it for me), followed by Bunnie. I already have two peppy bunnies (it's A LOT) on my island, so no thank you (but she was cute so if I didn't already have Carmen AND BonBon). Fifth island I found Hornsby, who I think is super cute, and I've never had a rhino villager before, so that was exciting.
I alsodespoiled harvested every resource off all five islands, so all in all it was worth it. (Me, while Horsnby watches me work: You really want to move to my island after I've literally stripped this island bare? OK
I think if you're going into it looking at it as an exploration and are very open to who you invite, it can be a lot of fun. The more specific you get about what you want, the less happy you're going to be because the odds of getting them is going to be very low. One day, I burned 20 tickets trying to find a smug, any smug. I turned down a lot of villagers I would have loved to invite, and then wound up getting Phil as a random move-in the next day so I could have saved myself a lot of angst.
Chaddar, my second smug, moved out on Saturday, so yesterday I went island hopping with one of every personality already in my town, so no pressure to find something specific. I did have a slight preference for a male villager since I try to keep my gender balance even, but for the right female villager, I would have gone 6/4. I wound up doing four trips; I had 8 tickets in my inventory and I told myself I would use only those and then leave it to chance, even though I have almost 200k Nook Miles racked up. Eight is a lot of trips and I don't have that kind of patience.
Trip 1 was Sandy, she seemed perfectly nice but wasn't cute enough to upset my gender balance. Then I got Zucker, and decided to pass him over. (I can't handle having walking, talking takoyaki on my island. Takoyaki is delicious and I stopped eating it because I've read too much about the intelligence of octopuses for me to feel comfortable eating them anymore so having walking, talking cooked octopus on my island is just too much for me.) Then I got Miranda (eh, I do want a duck villager at some point, but she wasn't doing it for me), followed by Bunnie. I already have two peppy bunnies (it's A LOT) on my island, so no thank you (but she was cute so if I didn't already have Carmen AND BonBon). Fifth island I found Hornsby, who I think is super cute, and I've never had a rhino villager before, so that was exciting.
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I think if you're going into it looking at it as an exploration and are very open to who you invite, it can be a lot of fun. The more specific you get about what you want, the less happy you're going to be because the odds of getting them is going to be very low. One day, I burned 20 tickets trying to find a smug, any smug. I turned down a lot of villagers I would have loved to invite, and then wound up getting Phil as a random move-in the next day so I could have saved myself a lot of angst.
