Does the making a new character and avoid villagers really work for moving 'em out?

[marzipanmermaid]

I have a couple villagers I need out desperately.
They're already reserved for users on here and everything.
It's all go 'cept the fact that out of all of my villagers, those 4 won't ping.

I know people have all these methods.
I was wondering if the whole thing where you make a new character trick works?
I know you just ignore the villagers you want out and it take a week or something?

 

[Nunnafinga]

That method has only worked once for me out of at least six or seven attempts.I've tried it with both TTing and no TTing.I don't think it works any better than the other methods.

 

[marzipanmermaid]

That method has only worked once for me out of at least six or seven attempts.I've tried it with both TTing and no TTing.I don't think it works any better than the other methods.

That's what I figured. :/ I would do my normal cycling method, but knowing my luck, I'll kick out a villager I wanna keep or a villager I'm holding for someone who won't be around at the time of said kicking out.

 

[fancy_pirate]

It worked for me 3/4 times in my old town. I made a new character, talked to everyone once, then avoided the unwanted villager while being chatty with everyone else. Deleted character, made a new one; rinse, repeat.

That being said, sometimes another villager would ping to leave before the one I wanted out, but once you tell them no, the one you want out should ping soon after. Also, it helps to save-and-continue when a villager pings but before you press A to talk to them. It gets rid of their awful "oh, well, I'll just stay so we can be better friends business" when you agree that they should move out.

 

[Hypno KK]

Ignoring villagers has never, ever worked for me and there are even people who say that makes them less likely to ping, not more. I've found the characters I talk to in moderate amounts are more likely to ping but I think it's more random than anything.

The new characters people use in most methods is just to check who's moving out without the game counting any TTing done towards your mayor's decisions and such.

The most effective method I've found was just using the 3DS clock to travel back and forth to see who was gone then telling to stay/go. I can explain that method if you're interested, but maybe you know about it already. It's worked really well for me and it's pretty safe as long as you don't accidentally load as your mayor in the steps where you should be loading as new character.

 

[natalie]

Ugh I hate that! I heard if yo ignore them completely, or talk to them a ton, theyre more likely to move out.

 

[Rumblethumps]

I've tried it a bunch, and it's never worked for me. The villagers that I try to get rid of just kind of keep sticking around for what feels like forever.

As irritating as it is, the thing that's worked most for me is talking to them a lot, and eventually they tell me they want to move.