Letters to your villagers

[SilkSpectre]

Especially your favorites. What do you say in them? Do you usually attach gifts? Generating ideas for the times when I need to mail them.

 

[Liamslash]

I have, I'm doing it more to get how much my villagers like me up then the letter badge. I like adding random stuff I find.

 

[katysu]

I'm influenced by the previous games I've played in this series - wild world & city folk.
So I've roughly followed the guidelines players worked out for these games.

Players think there are a few keywords that the game recognises: friend, thank you (or thanks), present, gift, love.
This may or may not be true. But I use these words in most letters I send. I always use grammatically correct sentences (well I hope I do) & spell & punctuate correctly. If pressed for time a one line letter, but I try for 3 lines.
I think one word on 5 lines will work. (Liquefy, walkthrough faq, gamefaqs).
I always include a gift, but what you send can be displayed in their house including shells, so be careful if that is important to you.

I always get a reply but not always a gift, sometimes as few as half send a gift back, sometimes its nearly all of them.
I use letters as a way of keeping friendship level relatively high as I don't always complete their tasks, and don't let them visit if they want a visit 40mins + into the future (immediate visits OK, but picking a time in advance is often awkward).

 

[SilkSpectre]

I have, I'm doing it more to get how much my villagers like me up then the letter badge. I like adding random stuff I find.

Ooh there's a letter badge? Even more reason to do it now.

- - - Post Merge - - -

I'm influenced by the previous games I've played in this series - wild world & city folk.
So I've roughly followed the guidelines players worked out for these games.

Players think there are a few keywords that the game recognises: friend, thank you (or thanks), present, gift, love.
This may or may not be true. But I use these words in most letters I send. I always use grammatically correct sentences (well I hope I do) & spell & punctuate correctly. If pressed for time a one line letter, but I try for 3 lines.
I think one word on 5 lines will work. (Liquefy, walkthrough faq, gamefaqs).
I always include a gift, but what you send can be displayed in their house including shells, so be careful if that is important to you.

I always get a reply but not always a gift, sometimes as few as half send a gift back, sometimes its nearly all of them.
I use letters as a way of keeping friendship level relatively high as I don't always complete their tasks, and don't let them visit if they want a visit 40mins + into the future (immediate visits OK, but picking a time in advance is often awkward).

Been using letters as a way to give them their stuff back they are so insistent upon selling in Retail and get them to change ugly outfits. great tips! Thank you. Just what I needed.

 

[katysu]

Gold letter badge was one of the first (if not the first) gold badge I got - (letters sent: 50 bronze, 100 silver, 200 gold) - if you have 10 villagers & send one letter to each daily - less than 3 weeks!

 

[AppleBitterCrumble]

I will usually reply to the letters they send me! Like if they say something I will make up something to go along with that letter and maybe attach a gift of what the topic of the letter is.

 

[ZebraQueen]

Very easy
I just wait for my 10 villagers

Write 200 in one day
Done gold badge never write more letters
It takes up my time on talking with them

 

[namiieco]

I don't put much effort into them and I usually just leave them blank or write hi
But I only send letters when I want something from villagers

 

[lovendor]

When I first started I wrote letters often (in-game stationary is so cute after all!) but then I got a lot lazier, until I just stopped writing them at all. Now that I'm into it again I love sending villagers nice tees, or furniture that suits the theme of their house (or in my case, undoing the horrible house travesties I started before I understood the game).

 

[cornimer]

I usually either talk about the weather, in-town events that are happening or how much I like them. I rarely send presents, I'm too lazy.

 

[AppleTart0]

When I first started I wrote letters often (in-game stationary is so cute after all!) but then I got a lot lazier, until I just stopped writing them at all. Now that I'm into it again I love sending villagers nice tees, or furniture that suits the theme of their house (or in my case, undoing the horrible house travesties I started before I understood the game).

Noob me messed up 8/9 of the wonderful houses of my villagers. ;-;
But now they're all gone.

 

[amanda1983]

I send letters in batches, writing a generic letter that is the same for all 10 villagers. I use key words as someone else noted above, using proper spelling and correct grammar, and 2-3 sentences. Always add a gift of random items/cheapest shells. I don't care what villagers houses look like at all, in fact I try and clear each house out of their furniture to collect it..

 

[Lady Sugarsaurus]

I like giving my villagers nicknames, the ones I wanna keep anyway, so I usually include that in there.
For instance, my Felicity is Felici-kitty, and Punchy is Husbando cause I'm his Waifu. lol.
So if I want someone to wear something it usually is like:

"Please wear this, Felici-kitty. Much love!"

lol. Or:

"I think you'll look cute in this, Felici-kitty, why don't you try it on?"

I don't know if it actually registers what my letters say, but I like to write something cute so that when they show letters to other people, it actually says something besides being like one letter or something.

My Punchy likes to show me a letter my sister sent him when we shared a copy of ACNL, and keeps mentioning that it smells of bacon. Why, I'm not sure. lol. She doesn't even like bacon. xD

 

[AquaStrudel]

Whenever it's to my favorites it's usually something dumb like this:

"how u doin bby"
or
"don't ever leave me pls i luv u pls"

and if I'm feeling generous and have a useless shirt in my inventory I'll just put it in the letter

 

[Hurplepippo]

I send letters in batches, writing a generic letter that is the same for all 10 villagers. I use key words as someone else noted above, using proper spelling and correct grammar, and 2-3 sentences. Always add a gift of random items/cheapest shells. I don't care what villagers houses look like at all, in fact I try and clear each house out of their furniture to collect it..

Glad I'm not the only one!

 

[Buster Bunny]

I usually don't send letters since they cannot really give a decent reply.
Maybe they say something relevant when the gaming technology advance.

But, I might give it again, even if they disconsider what I'm talking about.