Has the campsite system changed?

[Le_Keks]

As many of you know, you can select your villagers via campsite. A lot of gamers already shared their experiences and how it works.
For those who don't know: There used to be a system considering the personalities of the villagers, ie if you don't have a smug villager on your island, animals with this personality are more likely to visit and an animal only visits once. It requires timetraveling though.


Since the update the same animals keep coming over and over again which makes it impossible now to get the villager you actually want.
I checked some japanese websites and they say that this might be because people started trading rare characters, which I kind of understand, but for players who really only want certain animals to live with them on their island I think it's not fair.

Anyway, fyi the campsite system doesn't work anymore.

Anybody had the same experience?

 

[Lavulin98]

this is incredibly sad news to hear. I also wanna follow this topic since I used the campsite method often before the update.

 

[wanderlust//]

Well, this seriously sucks. I was considering using the campsite method to try and get a villager I wanted. Alas, it seems as if I am too late to the party (pffff what else is new claudia you’re a freaking joke) Why oh why, Nintendo. You’ve already graced us with such gReAt quality of life, why not take away a valuable method of villager hunting, too?

 

[Le_Keks]

It really really sucks. After the update I decided that I want a new villager and let one actually good villager go (just needed some change). Then I started hunting for Dom. I don't have a jock villager and still 80% of the campsite visitors are jock, but the same ones come again and again. In 2 weeks I met over 400 animals (there are only 390 or so in this game) and still no Dom.
Thanks Nintendo

 

[InstantNoodles]

I noticed this. I tried to see if I could reroll some normal villagers but after 3 consecutive campsite visitors of various personalities (cranky, lazy and peppy) I was thinking maybe it got patched out.

 

[rosabelle]

Ah, thanks for the heads up. I had no cranky/peppy on my island but been getting different personality ones that I already have on my island (lazy & normal) so I wondered how come. Sad, I want to eventually do the campsite reset again but guess I'll be stuck island hunting.

 

[Ananas Dragon]

WHAT?!

Nintendo whyyy?
You ruin everything.
Gave us an incomplete game, and while they made the bank interest a crappy 10k they're going to ruin this too?

 

[moon_child]

Oh this seriously sucks. I hate island hopping so much so the campsite method was my go to in terms of recruiting villagers. I reset my game recently and still haven’t updated so I can still take advantage of the campsite method and make sure I get all my dreamies before I update my game. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[meela]

Aww, that's unfortunate to hear! I think I understand their process though, however this still sucks.

 

[Ciary]

wait so, the thing they removed was that you no longer have to go through all 400 villagers before a villager returns to the campsite? and instead villagers are just picked at random?
am I alone in thinking this isn't a bad thing? I change my mind sometimes. I let cherry go at some point and now I want her to move to my island. I have had to find her on a mystery island but now I also have a chance that she will appear in my campsite again. I am not against this.
or am I misunderstanding something?

 

[Mick]

I'm also a little confused on what they changed now. Did they remove the part where villagers would not repeat, or did they remove the function where you're more likely to get a villager from a personality that you're missing?

The first one would not be that bad for me but the second one was a mechanic that I really liked...

 

[Le_Keks]

Campsite visitors repeat now.
It doesn't sound so bad first, but it seems like the chances they come again are based on their popularity ranking - at least it was my experience and I read about it on japanese websites. So, the rock bottom animals are more likely to appear again and again. It might also happen that the same animal appears 3 times in a row.

 

[Mick]

Having a campsite visitor that you absolutely do not want return to your campsite does kinda suck if you're not time travelling. (It's been about two weeks since I've even had a visitor...)

I really doubt anything is based on a popularity ranking though. This game doesn't keep an internal tier list, that is something only this community does. There are no god tier villagers defined in the code, and also no rock bottom ones.

I think what's happening there is that people want one or two specific villagers, and therefore the chance of getting one of the 30 they do not want is much higher. So "Aaah, I'm only getting worthless ones!"

 

[Loreley]

this is so annoying. I never used the campsite method, but it feels so petty to change this mechanic. After removing the hybrid flower islands, it really feels like Nintendo wants to have their game and the economy to be played in a certain way.

 

[BalloonFight]

this is so annoying. I never used the campsite method, but it feels so petty to change this mechanic. After removing the hybrid flower islands, it really feels like Nintendo wants to have their game and the economy to be played in a certain way.

Agreed fully with this. When reading this thread title it reminded me of the hybrid flower islands completely. There's literally no reason for Nintendo to remove the campsite method or the hybrid flower islands tbh. If they're worried about people selling villagers for high prices, the campsite method is actually a way to help prevent that. I'm sure countless people used it to get Raymond, instead of forking up the NMTs, Bells, or whatever for him.

 

[Underneath The Stars]

sucks, why would they changed that? i'm not sure of the personality percentage changes, unless we see the datamined info, but i believe the villager could repeatedly come now as several people have mentioned it. regarding personality that would appear, it's still not 100% so it could be RNG that's why some of you are getting the random personality that could be visiting. i just got a snooty the other day, which is the only personality i don't have, so i would have never assumed they patched this.

I really doubt anything is based on a popularity ranking though. This game doesn't keep an internal tier list, that is something only this community does. There are no god tier villagers defined in the code, and also no rock bottom ones.

I think what's happening there is that people want one or two specific villagers, and therefore the chance of getting one of the 30 they do not want is much higher. So "Aaah, I'm only getting worthless ones!"

true that

 

[niko@kamogawa]

I can see island hopping being relevant again. I wonder if this will affect the current market price of Nook Miles ticket. It's been down in the dumps lately.

 

[bestfriendsally]

i don't even have the game yet.......

you mean i won't be able to use this part of it?





& i just heard that they removed the hybrid flower islands? i was planning to go there......

edit: i was watching Mayor Mori's video 'Animal Crossing New Horizons HYBRID FLOWER ISLAND REMOVED (& Mystery Island Tours Probability GUIDE)

& he said ' hopefully the hybrid islands make a return in the next update '




i hope so, since i'm getting it for christmas.... although, i may decide to get it sooner... hmmm...

 

[Loriii]

It could be just RNG. I used to believe that you're guaranteed not to get a repeat when doing the campsite method because that's what happened to me during the earlier days when I did it to find Raymond. There are around 34 smug villagers in the game and I got him pretty late at number 27 but it took me 43 campers (mix of smug and other types) to finally make him appear. The most important thing was, I did not have any repeats.

Few weeks later, I tried it again when I needed a sisterly/uchi, thinking it will be easier to find Fuchsia since there are only 24 sisterly villagers in the game. You know what I found out? Repeats. Earlier on, I never had one. But then I got to the 17th sisterly which was Cherry. Okay, I continued, expecting that Fuchsia will appear soon. I'm down to just 7 sisterly. So I TT'd, then went to the campsite to check and guess who I saw? It was Cherry again, back to back. Wow. I could not believe and I was frustrated thinking every one of them could appear for more than once. Then I saw her again for the 3rd time after 3-4 campers came in mixed with other types and a few sisterly repeats (like Mira for the second time). Luckily, Fuchsia appeared after 10 more campers. So yeah, despite of the repeats, I still managed to find her.

I also did the campsite reset for Poppy after that. There are about 60 normal villagers so I expected that it will take time. But I got extremely lucky to find her on my 15th camper with no repeats this time (my 10th normal) and since then, I haven't done this method again. This was pre-July 3 update patch, by the way.

In TC's case, I think it's just bad RNG and resetting for jock isn't supposed to be easy (unless you want to reset for them literally at the start when you're selecting your map). There about 55 jock villagers, so I think in the process, you might eventually get repeat campers. So keep trying, I guess or if you have more than one Switch unit, you can just reset for Dom as your starter in the other island

 

[Mick]

Few weeks later, I tried it again when I needed a sisterly/uchi, thinking it will be easier to find Fuchsia since there are only 24 sisterly villagers in the game. You know what I found out? Repeats. Earlier on, I never had one. But then I got to the 17th sisterly which was Cherry. Okay, I continued, expecting that Fuchsia will appear soon. I'm down to just 7 sisterly. So I TT'd, then went to the campsite to check and guess who I saw? It was Cherry again, back to back. Wow. I could not believe and I was frustrated thinking every one of them could appear for more than once. Then I saw her again for the 3rd time after 3-4 campers came in mixed with other types and a few sisterly repeats (like Mira for the second time). Luckily, Fuchsia appeared after 10 more campers. So yeah, despite of the repeats, I still managed to find her.

That's interesting, because if this was long ago, then this isn't a new thing at all and that the old way of villagers not repeating might as well just not have been a thing in the first place. I've never tried the campsite method myself, but I'm wondering if more people have had repeats in the past?