How damaging is turning down a request? Do you deny?

[Underneath The Stars]

Since the villagers LOVE displaying bugs on top of their tables, making their houses ugly, I kinda stopped doing requests or letting them buy my stuff. Unless it's wallpaper or fruit. Or sometimes tee's, which is easier to make them replace by gifting furniture.

So what is better & what do you do- refuse or say yes, then not do it? Or do it & just keep re-gifting them furniture even though it's tedious? I don't strictly maintain their original furniture btw, customizing is fun.


I feel like they get either sad or mad after the refusal. I feel bad but sometimes they make it sound ok. Those I have better relationships with say e.g., "Sorry, I know you have so much more important things to do. Forget I asked." Passive aggressive but at least not aggressive like the snooties- "That's not a very neighborly thing to say".

I wish you know the relationship level. Not knowing makes it more natural tho. Having levels like ACPC or friendship bars like Sims makes it less organic, but I can see this happening if there's a new switch game. The option removal that separates Let's chat & Need help is one of the things I didn't like. They brought it back on Pocket Camp though, which might come back.

 

[gagtxt]

I remember reading before that denying a request wont hurt anything, but accepting it and not doing it will lower friendship, someone correct me if i'm wrong but ! I deny all furniture/bug/fish requests to maintain their houses.

 

[tiffanistarr]

I remember reading before that denying a request wont hurt anything, but accepting it and not doing it will lower friendship, someone correct me if i'm wrong but ! I deny all furniture/bug/fish requests to maintain their houses.

I've heard the same thing. From experience though, I can't tell you much of anything because in Hogwarts, I just let my villagers do w/e they want lol

They all have fossils that take up more than half the houses lol

To ensure my friendship level with them i just send letters, hang out with them when they ask, give perfect fruit, and do their deliveries, and i think that keeps them pretty satisfied!

 

[betta]

I remember reading before that denying a request wont hurt anything, but accepting it and not doing it will lower friendship, someone correct me if i'm wrong but ! I deny all furniture/bug/fish requests to maintain their houses.

oh ****, you have no idea how many times I've accepted their requests & end up not doing it LOL specially if it was a hard to catch bug/fish,
I usually accept when they want to sell me their stupid shirts & furniture or deliveries & fruit

 

[Haskell]

I deny or accept requests based off of the time I have.

 

[Underneath The Stars]

oh ****, you have no idea how many times I've accepted their requests & end up not doing it LOL specially if it was a hard to catch bug/fish,
I usually accept when they want to sell me their stupid shirts & furniture or deliveries & fruit

I used to keep saying yes then either forget to do or fail >_<
I love fruit requests because it's the easiest and they'll just eat it lol. Furniture requests too.
They're so obsessed with bugs and difficult to catch fish and they request it at the wrong time I'm tired

 

[Loriii]

I don't do any requests other than fruit, signatures, or when they want me to visit their homes/want to visit my home. Pretty sure I still have high friendship with them.

 

[stitchmaker]

Read that it's best to say no.
A few times I've said yes but couldn't get the item they wanted. To fix this I sent them a letter with a piece of perfect fruit. Told them I was sorry that I couldn't get the item. That should remove the fail getting the item.

Last night one of the villagers asked for any cicada and I had to say no. Sent them a letter saying that the bug wasn't around until July and would catch them one than. Not sure why the game is asking for a Cicada when it was June 6th.

 

[Miii]

It doesn't make much of a difference. All you really have to worry about is keeping them from moving out, which you can do by either keeping the date the same, or always keeping tabs on who's thinking about moving. Having more than one character is really helpful for keeping villagers from moving because if they don't ping you on one character, they probably will on another, and they'll always stay if you ask them to.

 

[Stackhouse]

I don't do them ever.
I'm not worried about friendship levels.

I only talk to them to find out who might be moving.

 

[Nunnafinga]

I do most of 'em but I don't get too worried if I miss a few here and there.I think that once you've established a high friendship level with a villager you really have to mistreat them for the level to drop a significant amount.

 

[Dorian]

I do most of 'em but I don't get too worried if I miss a few here and there.I think that once you've established a high friendship level with a villager you really have to mistreat them for the level to drop a significant amount.

I saw Nunna made a reply so I had to jump in and see what it was! Hi Nunna!

 

[Moonfish]

Read that it's best to say no.
A few times I've said yes but couldn't get the item they wanted. To fix this I sent them a letter with a piece of perfect fruit. Told them I was sorry that I couldn't get the item. That should remove the fail getting the item.

Last night one of the villagers asked for any cicada and I had to say no. Sent them a letter saying that the bug wasn't around until July and would catch them one than. Not sure why the game is asking for a Cicada when it was June 6th.

Lantern Fly counts as a cicada You don?t need to turn down those cicada requests,

 

[Sakura625]

I practically stopped doing requests for my villagers, since it's not as rewarding to befriend them compared to other games ;v;

 

[Sweetley]

I say no to a request right at the beginning when if it's something I'm not able to give, such as a rare
fish or gonna collecting signatures. Otherwise I do the request, as I don't care anymore if my villagers
have too many bugs or fishes in their houses, since they change their houses so often, I can't control
it anyway what they have in the house and what not. Of course it happens too that I forget a request,
but I don't mind to be honest.

 

[Croconaw]

I always did them because I didn?t want to hurt their feelings by saying no.

 

[stitchmaker]

Lantern Fly counts as a cicada You don’t need to turn down those cicada requests,

Thanks so much. I've been playing since release and didn't know the Lantern Fly counted.

 

[Tim]

I never even thought about how accepting their requests and then not fulfilling them would negatively effect their friendship levels. I will have to be sure not to accept the requests if they are something I don't have time for. I feel so mean though denying villagers of what they request for, even though I continually just tell them I will help but then forget them... Now that I think about it, I am a jerk when it comes to requests lol.