Does anyone know what happens when..

[russiancars]

...you've invited a villager to come live in your town from the campsite when there's no room for another villager in your town?
I mean physically no room; there are PWPs or structures/rocks arranged in such a way where there isn't any free space anywhere for their house to spawn, even though you have 9 or fewer villagers in your town.

 

[N a t]

You may not think they can find a way in, but they always do...

 

[Azura]

I think I remember reading that they send a letter saying they were unable to move in.

 

[twisty]

If there's really no room, iirc they just won't show up. They'll send you a letter saying something else came up.

 

[russiancars]

I think I've somehow encountered this situation in my town... Will keep posted.

 

[Belle of Pripyat]

If you have 10 villagers already, they simply won't show up. Personally, I don't waste my time at the campsite when I have a full town. (Unless I want to play games to get furniture, that is.)

 

[Rose]

I can't imagine there not being any room when there's limit on how many PWPs you can place.

 

[russiancars]

There are only 9 villagers in my town at present, I was speaking of physical room for their houses to be able to spawn.

 

[Belle of Pripyat]

Oops, I misread the first post. Wow... I don't know how your town can be so packed that there's no room for one final villager. You're only allowed so many PWPs and the villagers can and will crush trees and flowers to put down a house.

 

[MalinkaLuna]

that actually is a really good question

i dont think, you can place so many projects that you dont have enough room. some projects can only be placed once too, like the lighthouse and stuff

 

[russiancars]

I deliberately charted out my town to make a grid of PWPs (mostly big ones like fountains, the fence and flower clocks) which would strictly limit the areas where my villagers could move into, to make them line up in a perfect row with some coaxing via plot resetting. I have one final space plotted for a villager to be able to move into, but it doesn't appear as if it's going to be big enough since she's not spawning;
this is the second day since I convinced the villager in my campsite to move to my town and she doesn't seem to be appearing anywhere when I do a reset.
It's quite frustrating since I reset for a few hours today to get her.

 

[Belle of Pripyat]

Sometimes it takes two or three days for a villager to move in. Try tomorrow's date and see if she comes.

 

[russiancars]

Here's an image of the space where the villager should be able to move into, the yellow tiles representing the place where the house will be, and the gray tiles representing the invisible border over which no permanent object or cliff/river can cross:

http://imgur.com/edZ9X2R

and here's an image proving a villager's house fits in that grid:

http://imgur.com/nxPQYJa

- - - Post Merge - - -

I plan on playing normally and see if she shows up on the third day! I'm hoping she moves in.

- - - Post Merge - - -

Maybe my hope was misplaced...

http://imgur.com/DsWnNIt

At least we have an answer now! Unless there's another explanation.