As I said, I used to believe that you would not have repeating campers while doing the entire process because of my first experience, but my second go of that proved that I was wrong. Oh yeah, I also want to hear what people will say regarding their experiences on the campsite method.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?
Has the campsite system changed?
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moon_child
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In my old island before I reset, I used the campsite method for more than half of my villagers and never got a repeat unless I’ve already gone through each and every villager of that particular personality.
I don't like how people feel entitled to have ways to get their favorite villager through weird in-game mechanics. And let's be honest, Nintendo clearly intended the campsite as a way for people to fill out their personalities NOT to find their 'favorite' villager.
If anything, players who play the game 'as intended' should feel upset about yet another well-intended feature taken away from them, because of people that figure out ways to misuse these features to create their 'perfect' island. What's worse, they feel Nintendo has no right to take that away from them. What gives?
Let me expand on what I mean by playing the game 'as intended'. I am pretty sure the whole point of the AC series is to give people a sense of community, the eb and flow of normal life, wrapped in cute package without anything that really requires 'doing'. You go with the flow, let the game dictate in a sense what's worth doing at a particular point in time and you move from there. Villagers come and go, you make new friends, feel sad about villagers leaving, extremely happy about reunions. People who TT to accelerate this process are playing the game normally too in my opinion.
What I do not find intended play is people who want the game the behave in the way THEY want, because it might screw with their long term plans. Let me be clear, I am totally cool with people playing the game in that manner. I just think that Nintendo should not cater to these players.
If anything, players who play the game 'as intended' should feel upset about yet another well-intended feature taken away from them, because of people that figure out ways to misuse these features to create their 'perfect' island. What's worse, they feel Nintendo has no right to take that away from them. What gives?
Let me expand on what I mean by playing the game 'as intended'. I am pretty sure the whole point of the AC series is to give people a sense of community, the eb and flow of normal life, wrapped in cute package without anything that really requires 'doing'. You go with the flow, let the game dictate in a sense what's worth doing at a particular point in time and you move from there. Villagers come and go, you make new friends, feel sad about villagers leaving, extremely happy about reunions. People who TT to accelerate this process are playing the game normally too in my opinion.
What I do not find intended play is people who want the game the behave in the way THEY want, because it might screw with their long term plans. Let me be clear, I am totally cool with people playing the game in that manner. I just think that Nintendo should not cater to these players.
thischarmingboi
Member
Clearly Nintendo have seen how people have been abusing this method to get the villagers they want which is against the way they intended for the campsite to operate and have fixed it to be more in line with their original concept.
The campsite was never meant to serve as a way for you to get all of your favourite villagers immediately unless you are scanning them in through amiibo, thus you can't really complain about this 'feature' being removed because it was never an intended one in the first place. People took advantage, Nintendo saw, they operated accordingly.
If you claim Nintendo is 'ruining' the game by doing this you are being ridiculous.
The campsite was never meant to serve as a way for you to get all of your favourite villagers immediately unless you are scanning them in through amiibo, thus you can't really complain about this 'feature' being removed because it was never an intended one in the first place. People took advantage, Nintendo saw, they operated accordingly.
If you claim Nintendo is 'ruining' the game by doing this you are being ridiculous.
I still don't believe that Nintendo removed the "feature" or have done something about this. I've posted my experience to let people know that repeating villagers/campers isn't anything new and I experienced it myself, so my first reaction when I came across this topic was like "Okay, I feel like I need to share/say something".
Well that sucks*, I only ever managed to get Raymond thanks to that method and it helped to lots of people like me... 
It seems like nintendo only let you get villagers easily by paying for amiibos, I wonder if they will release new ones soon?
*Edit: If it's true, since it may be still working?
It seems like nintendo only let you get villagers easily by paying for amiibos, I wonder if they will release new ones soon?
*Edit: If it's true, since it may be still working?
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I do not fully agree with you. but let me clarify
yes, I agree that people are misusing a feature Nintendo included to get the perfect island. But that should not be the reason for Nintendo to take that feature away. if you used the campsite method to create your own perfect island, by all means go ahead.
However, there is a nuance to be made here. if you abuse the system to get a rare villager that you then sell online, that is a different thing! I was always of the mindset that timetravel and other exploits are ok, as long as you are not affecting other people. But this is using an exploit to affect other people. so I understand why Nintendo would remove it. especially since more and more trades are using RLC (which is against Nintendo's terms of service by the way)
And yes, that is if this feature was even a thing in the first place ...
applesauc3
Sarah from Banana
I don’t understand... wouldn’t that have to mean that there are a finite number of villagers accessible to the entire population of AC players? I feel like that doesn’t make sense because there technically aren’t any “rare” villagers since we have an equal probability of getting any of them. It’s the players who’ve created their own tier system. I think if the thing is only that villagers can repeat in the campsite it isn’t the worst thing?
Feeling the need to reply here, because I think we agree and you slightly misunderstood me, so let me clarify.
I am totally fine with people using these mechanics to get their perfect island. It does not affect my gameplay experience in any way. I just pointed out I think it is not the way AC is meant to be played. Nintendo changing that feature is adding weight to that argument.
However, because Nintendo does have problems with it, my gameplay *is* affected by it. Hence my remark that people that play the game as intended have more right to be annoyed, because it is of people that abuse the system, like you mention, that their game is changed.
I see a campsite villager every other week I think. It is a fun experience, because you never know who might be waiting for you inside. It's less of a fun experience when it is a villager that has already visited the island once.
Lynnatchii
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I have a problem while doing the campsite method.. So today I play animal crossing normally, and then I decided to try this method (from a video). it was going well, untill..there was NO campers whatsoever. I was TTing 1+ day multiple times but still no camper. It's been 2 in game months. But that's not all. Isabelle is broken. Everyday like EVERYDAY Isabelle said the SAME news. What is it? Well, "I have no big news, but I want to talk about season stuff blah blah blah" like that. Every. Single. Day. And then I went to present time but guess what? Isabelle is giving the same news. Even though I already played like 4 hours today and Isabelle already given the news
The campers isn't repeating though..
The campers isn't repeating though..
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Oof Nintendo really putting the hurt on their game. They're patching everything that's not really hurting the game, meanwhile they aren't battling the inflated trading economy or people selling stuff on ebay (when they say it's against ToS)
Reminds me when they dropped the spawn rate on that one high-selling butterfly. Who does that hurt except for people not hacking?
Reminds me when they dropped the spawn rate on that one high-selling butterfly. Who does that hurt except for people not hacking?
moon_child
Senior Member
I beg to disagree on the point about people “abusing” the campsite. Even in the old games, people have always had a way to get their favorites through the campsite by using a second character and resetting until you get a desired camper. People have also done plot resetting to get a desired move in. It’s not the intended way to play, yes. But it’s not abuse in my opinion. It’s not abuse to not want undesirable villagers in your town. And it’s not abuse to spend time and effort trying to get a villager you like through resetting or save scumming if you don’t have money to spend for an amiibo card or a monthly online subscription to trade for villagers. What is abuse is taking that option away through an update to push people to spend more money for amiibos and online subscriptions when they already paid a hefty sum for an unfinished game just because you can.
Sharksheep
Senior Member
It's weird is that after the update I was time traveling and was looking for a camper. I had no normals and 3 of the 4 campers were normal and I did not a repeat.
I am hesitant to call this patched until someone attempts the campsite method 50+ time and see who comes through. Trying the campsite method for the next 2-4 villagers is too small of a sample size.
I am hesitant to call this patched until someone attempts the campsite method 50+ time and see who comes through. Trying the campsite method for the next 2-4 villagers is too small of a sample size.
yeah I agree
I still think the people that used the system only to get the villagers for their own island are allowed to complain though
it's really just for those that used this method to then sell them. thereby affecting other people. that are to blame
Sharksheep
Senior Member
Assuming that it was patch, before it was never a guarantee that you would get a personality you didn't have. It was very likely the camper would be. I did not have a jock on my island in both May and June and most of my campers were jock but I did get a sisterly and a snooty.
2-3 campers is too small of a sample size of any actual evidence that this was patch.
could one of you link to one of these japanese sources? I'm curious so I'll ask the dataminers if they can look into it, but would like a public source that isn't just hearsay first, thanks. (ie. not a forum)
xedit: since according to the campsite method, if you cycle through all villagers of a certain personality and are still missing a few, they could be in your move-in queue
double edit: after looking at the info posted in this thread again, I think people are expecting too much from the campsite method. If you're missing a personality, it's about 60% that you get that personality, not a hard guarantee. That's 60% over a large sample size (1000+) not like 5.
xedit: since according to the campsite method, if you cycle through all villagers of a certain personality and are still missing a few, they could be in your move-in queue
double edit: after looking at the info posted in this thread again, I think people are expecting too much from the campsite method. If you're missing a personality, it's about 60% that you get that personality, not a hard guarantee. That's 60% over a large sample size (1000+) not like 5.
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niko@kamogawa
I am hungry for storage space!
I would rather focus on getting this information verified first before we enter into a subject of debate whether if it's an abuse or not. Honestly, we are now living in an era of where they can patch games to fix issues. Furthermore, Nintendo can somewhat "dictate" on how we play the game. I am sure that most players might find this disheartening but let's look into their perspective of "why."
Sharksheep
Senior Member
This is from a new account that is not even a day old. Honestly I would love the to see the Japanese websites and read them for myself. But I'm pretty sure it's the same as this thread.
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