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Is this a glitch or just rotten luck?

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I've had my second town since February. Since then I've gotten ONE pwp request. One. That's it. I still only have all the basic ones you start out with aside from the one.

I have done every sort of trick there is to get villagers to request more and they just don't. I've done the diving trick, I've filled my pockets with flowers, I talk to them nonstop and run errands for them constantly. Still they only ever ping me about catchphrases or to ask me to bring them fruit. But oddly, even then I don't get pings that much.

I've been dying to decorate the town with pwps and work on landscaping more but I have nothing to work with at all.

Is this possibly some kind of glitch or do I just have really terrible luck?
 
I think it's bad luck. I've had towns where I've been the absolute bestest friend to my villagers and I swear it took me 3 months to suggest my first PWP.

In this one I'm practically ignoring them and I'm getting requests almost daily. Crazy!
 
It's driving me insane. I just want some nice benches, is that too much? ;~;
 
In my experience I find that building lots of unnecessary PWPs helps me to get PWP requests from villagers. I've gotten most of my PWP pings immediately after the ceremony of a PWP I only made to get closer to perfect town status...
 
Ugh, I haven't had my town for as long, but about a month and I've gotten one too. So frustrating!!! ;w;
 
In my experience I find that building lots of unnecessary PWPs helps me to get PWP requests from villagers. I've gotten most of my PWP pings immediately after the ceremony of a PWP I only made to get closer to perfect town status...

I have a bunch of pwps up already, I considered maybe that was it but that hasn't helped either. At ceremonies the villagers just walk away at the end and say nothing. I have so many lamps and ugly yellow benches in my town ;~;
 
Ugh, that's terrible of them. You spend all those bells to build PWPs you don't want, just to make them happy, and what do you get in return...nothing...
 
It took me a while to get the first few PWP requests and then once they started coming in, I got requests daily. Just be patient and hopefully when it rains it pours.
 
It took me a while to get the first few PWP requests and then once they started coming in, I got requests daily. Just be patient and hopefully when it rains it pours.

It's been 10 months though. Ten months. This hasn't happened in my other towns.
 
Yeah 10 months is pretty long to go without any PWP requests. Actually, it's not even "pretty long", it's more like "this should be literally impossible"...
 
Hmm, seems like it's a random chance for new public work projects, but if it took that long seems kind of odd maybe there's too much of the same villager type? not a balance of villagers, need 10/10 villagers ... I'm sure you got all of it hmm probably your town is perfect and doesn't need anymore improvements xD
 
Nahh, I have the same problem! Funnily enough, after a while when you do get 1 natural ping for a PWP, it seems to open the floodgates, and suddenly everyone pin for them! Albeit all the worst ones (Big screen, yield sign etc.) I have not had one good one yet, but at least I'm getting them, right? :/
 
Do you ever play and then put the DS in sleep mode whilst the game is still running? Or walk away from the 3DS for a while? I can only imagine that you are actually missing the pings during these times.
 
Do you time travel a lot? Maybe they don't feel "close to you" if you're not playing mostly day by day. It seems like when I hang out with my villagers often, do favors and send letters, they request PWPs.
 
I have a bunch of pwps up already, I considered maybe that was it but that hasn't helped either. At ceremonies the villagers just walk away at the end and say nothing. I have so many lamps and ugly yellow benches in my town ;~;

Maybe you've reached your limit since you have so many lamps and benches?
 
Probably just bad luck. Or, perhaps it is God's evil plot against you and the acnl community as a whole. People have probably been bringing to the game to church or w/e and upsetting him.
 
Don't know whether this may help but what seems too work for me with getting pwp's, is swimming in the ocean. I always swim one end to the other while catching the sea creatures that are under water. Then when I walk around my town, sometimes a villager will request a pwp.
 
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