How to (sort of) pic what villagers move in!!

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OK, so idk if anyone has posted about this method but im gunna make a thread about it :)

so the otherday i found a "fool proof guide to move out villagers" and thought id give it a try.

to my excitment, i was able to move out Alli and Cesar :)

but while my tonw was in the "moving-in phase"as the guide describes it i remembered a post i saw about getting favored villagers in a campsite for invites

this included making a new character, scouting out the campsite, and if there is a villager you like then continue to set up the newly made character so you can save and delete it afterwards, and if there is an undesired villager or no villager at all then close out without saving and redo the process.

i forget who made the post about the campsite, sorry :( but you know who you are ;)

by incorporating the campsite method into the "moving-in phase" of the guide i found that i was able to see who was moving in and where they where building their house.

how this works, as explained by the campsite guide, when you first start a new day Isabelle generates things like flowers, fossils, pitfalls, etc. this also includes new villagers when you are in the "moving-in phase"

when you create a new character the town gets prepared and these things generate. but sense you need to set up your tent before saving with the new character you can scout out your town for new villagers and quit without saving if you dont like the villager/placement of their house.

just rinse and repeat until you get the a dream villager or a house placement that doesn't erase your only cherry trees :mad: [haha]

the only downside to this is the big dirt spot you get when deleting the dummy character after finding a good villager, i suggest using the same spot and wait for it to grow back afterwards.

ive also found that when it is one or two days after a villager moves out the new villagers spawn in less frequently.

what i did was save my town and delete the dummy villager whenever there WAS NOT a new villager moving in and then the following days yielded a higher spawn rate of new villagers.

thats it! i hope this helps people find some dream villagers without having to set up trades or spend X amount of millions of bells for one. im still hunting for Rosie, ive passed up on about 8 to 10 villagers i didnt like so far in the past two days, but when i work 8 hour days i dont have much time for a long 4-5 hour ACNL session like i do on weekends, i cant get much progress done :P

anyway, i hope this helps out at least one person, but the more the merrier :D
 
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That's exactly what i was planning on doing in a few after i give away one of my villagers who wants to move. And for the exact same reasons lol that trading thing is hecka stressful !!

One part i don't get though is : ive also found that when it is one or two days after a villager moves out the new villagers spawn in less frequently.
what i did was save my town and delete the dummy villager whenever there WAS NOT a new villager moving in and then the following days yielded a higher spawn rate of new villagers.

can you try reexplaingin that one please?
 
it is kind of explained in the move out villagers guide. there will be a new villager moving in 2-3 days after one moves out so the there is less of a chance for one to move in the day after a villager moves out.

the chance of a villager moving in increases with each passing day. so when you save the game when there are no new villagers moving in and go to the next day there is a better chance that you will find one

eventually if you get through a couple of days without a new villager moving in there is a greater chance of finding a one the following day

also when i said delete the dummy villager i was referring to the new character you would create to generate the town, sorry if that part was confusing :P

hope this helped
 
yes thank you so much I get it.

Just to be sure, you quit without saving by turning off the 3DS right? or pressing home and quitting some like that?
 
you could either turn off the 3DS or just hit the home button and close the game. but yes, after you make the new character and you dont what the villager you found quit without saving
 
ok i must have done something wrong : i had 9 villagers TTd one out. saved after they were gone, TTd forward 2 or 3 days until i saw someone in the tent (as mayor) i saved and started the new character thing, but i keep getting the same villager in the tent. what am i missing? do i have to talk? i see him i turn it off i try again, so it's same day. i don"t get where the problem is. please help?
 
its because you loaded the day as the mayor first. when Isabelle prepares your town for the day it automatically saves things like camping villagers and new villagers.

you have to start the day with the new save file, not the mayor.
 
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