Moving out and getting villagers question

[streetspirit]

I want to know how exactly people manage to move out their unwanted villagers and move in their dream ones. It seems very difficult, and kind of impossible to me. As in, how do you guys do it? (sorry if this is in the wrong place)

 

[Underneath The Stars]

You're in the right place, assuming it's for ACNL. How I do it is very time consuming because I play naturally with minimal time travel. Basically, I wait for the ping everyday and if it's someone I want to stay, I don't let them go & if it's someone I'd rather replace with a dreamie, I let them go. Reminder that no one is going to ping you to move out during events, or if a villager already is set to move out. Tbh it's not that difficult, it's more time consuming, but definitely not impossible. It gets easier if you're willing to time travel & have the Beautiful Town Ordinance implemented.

Regarding moving out unwanted villagers the fastest way, you can't really move out someone specific unless you have amiibo cards. It's always going to be random, but I find that the more you're friends with them, the more likely they'd want to move out and agree to move out (the game loves punishing us like that). So if you have unwanted villagers, don't treat them differently as your favorites. There are guides to moving out villagers where they say to ignore them, hit them with a net etc. In my experience, it'll actually be harder to move them out. They might ping you move out, but when you say Sayonara! they'd decide to stay longer (unless you don't save and reload game). Basically, I'm able to get my dreamies by treating my villagers the same.

Now to get them to actually ping you is the tedious part. There are guides out there (A LOT so idk what to link) where it requires time travel. You time travel to every next day or 1-2 days, but never more than 3 days as you could lose a villager that way so be careful. The reason why, is that the game randomly generates who will think of moving out when a new day starts at 6am. So it's better to check daily. Talk to every single villager until you get a rumor that someone's moving or a ping from that villager itself. Once an unwanted villager pings and decides to move out, time travel to the move out day. Then once their house is gone, go ahead and adopt your dreamie asap. Don't wait for a couple of days as a new unwanted villager could move in.

There's an even more detailed guide for this. Like, how many days to time travel after someone moves out, how to move out someone who just moved in, etc. I'll try to find a link.

 

[streetspirit]

Oh, goodness! This seems as if it may work..

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Okay, uhm... I haven't done anything yet, and a villager just asked to move out. Do I time travel to the move out date right now?

 

[Tomoe Hotaru]

Ok so here is my take on this:

I watched a youtube video about someone analysing what makes the villagers move, I can?t say for sure if what Underneath The Stars said is more true,
but this is what the person found out and their theory:
The game basically seems to sort out villagers that you don?t care for. Talking to a new villager once to introduce yourself does nothing, but when talking to them again, the game puts them into a cathegory for "befriending". Once the game thinks you want to spend time with them (that includes bullying them!) they will take much longer to move.
So the suggestion is that you only talk to a villager once and ignore them completely, the game should get rid of them first.
But what if you already talked to them? Here they suggest making a new character: I can?t remember if the guide was that the new character should never speak to the unwanted villagers or not, but based on the other `rules`it makes sense that you introduce the new character to everyone and then ignore the unwanted villagers.

I have not been trying this for more than two months, but so far two of my unwanted villagers moved out and one of my dreamies asked if they should move. I completely ignore any ping from the villagers I want to move out, I don?t even accept requests from my dreamies that would require talking to one of thos villagers. So far this worked fine.

Now here is what you should keep in mind to avoid problems:

• each villager personality has it?s own "rumor" conversation. there should be lists about that online but that might require some reaserch. If someone mentions the rumor-line for their personality, no one SHOULD want to move.
• You can choose one character to talk to every day and speak to them repeatedly, they will either mention the rumor or tell you someone is thinking of moving. They will always tell you one of these two things if you talk to them enough
• BUT you need two villagers for this method and here is why: there is a chance the one villager you selected to "check" that no one plans to move CAN give you their rumor-line if they themselves plan to move. So you should always talk to two animals to make sure none of your informants is the one that plans to move.
• If both villagers tell you the rumor in one day. Its guaranteed that no one plans to move right now.
• If your informants tell you someone is moving, wait till they ping you and then select whether or not you want them to move.
• If the villager that?s supposed to want to move, does NOT ping you even after being away for a few minutes, it?s likely that you have not talked to them for so long that they stopped pinging you entirely. In this case talk to them once (after all they already think of moving so that wont make them change their mind) and they should say something like "I havent seen you in ages!!". Then leave and next time you see them, they should ping you to tell you that they are leaving.

If you want to do this faster I would recommend using TT to skip to the day after tomorrow, talk to the two villager untill you get the rumor from both and then skipping a day again. Do that untill the informants tell you that a dreamie is moving to prevent that OR untill the unwanted animal is moving so you can encourage that.

I don?t have the most experience when it comes to cycling out villagers, but this has worked for me so far. Hope this helped a little

 

[streetspirit]

And I have a villager who's house hasn't even been built yet, and another who's plot hasn't been built yet either. Will anything bad happen to them?

 

[Tomoe Hotaru]

Okay, uhm... I haven't done anything yet, and a villager just asked to move out. Do I time travel to the move out date right now?

I think only one villager can move at one time, so it should be save to tt to the date where that one moves.
Just:

• be careful about your hybrids. they will die on longer time skips if you don?t have the beautiful town ordinance.
• don?t skip long periods after they moved out or you could loose a dreamie. If you want to skip a longer period, make sure to create a new character, check if someone is in boxes/already gone and then save with the new character if no one is moving. If someone is in boxes, turn off without saving and create a new character again untill no one is in boxes. Don?t load the game with your existing character because it will save that someone plans to move and you will not be able to change it.

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And I have a villager who's house hasn't even been built yet, and another who's plot hasn't been built yet either. Will anything bad happen to them?

what do you mean with their plot hasn?t been built? you don?t know where they will move but you know they will move in? If that?s the case, dont tt but do plot resetting to decide where the plot will be. If you have less than 9 villagers in your town currently, someone can move in and place their house randomly if you don?t select a space. This can also happen if you don?t have 10 and do streepass, someone with a villager in boxes (in that person?s town) is visiting your town or you invited someone from the campsite/used an amiibo.

 

[streetspirit]

aw dang it. i realise that I just lost a villager. See, I asked a villager to move in from another town and later in that same day I asked yet another to move in. So oops.

 

[Tomoe Hotaru]

I would defintely take the time to do proper plot resetting if you know someone is moving in, that saves you trouble in case the dreamie is moving into a horrible spot^^

 

[Underneath The Stars]

What Tomoe Hotaru said about talking to a new villager once, is something I have read too. It's true, but when you're like me who plays the game & talks to the villagers a lot, it's a trick that I don't personally do. Hence why I can't talk about it. However, in my game cube game (this is different from new leaf though), when someone new moves in & I greet them and I think I talk to them a little, but then because I used to take so long until I play again, I find out they just move out yet my close friends stay. So maybe it's the same for here.

But it is something I haven't tried yet on New Leaf. Being as someone who plays naturally, I talk to my villagers quite often so I don't think that method would work for me. And assuming streetspirit is talking about current villagers too, chances are they already talked to them.

Oh, goodness! This seems as if it may work..


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Okay, uhm... I haven't done anything yet, and a villager just asked to move out. Do I time travel to the move out date right now?

Just now you got a ping? Yes. Only one villager thinks of moving at a time, so if you're considering time traveling to move out day you should be safe. People here do this all the time, tt to move out day to put them in boxes so someone could adopt/they can adopt their dreamies.

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aw dang it. i realise that I just lost a villager. See, I asked a villager to move in from another town and later in that same day I asked yet another to move in. So oops.

I just saw this reply, while typing my reply above. What do you mean you lost a villager? Also, villagers only move one at a time, so if you asked villagers to move in from another town, only one will move in per day. (If I understand what you're saying correctly)

 

[Tomoe Hotaru]

And assuming streetspirit is talking about current villagers too, chances are they already talked to them.

Yeah I never tried to not talk to them at all since I didn?t allow unwanted villagers to move in after I started plot resetting. But it seems to still work if you ignore them after you started befriending them. (and there is always the option to make a new character who can ignore them properly) It?s just that they seem to move out way faster if you never talk to them besides the introduction. So far the villagers I ignore seem to be the ones to ask about moving.

 

[Underneath The Stars]

Yeah I never tried to not talk to them at all since I didn?t allow unwanted villagers to move in after I started plot resetting. But it seems to still work if you ignore them after you started befriending them. (and there is always the option to make a new character who can ignore them properly) It?s just that they seem to move out way faster if you never talk to them besides the introduction. So far the villagers I ignore seem to be the ones to ask about moving.

Me too. The only new villagers that move in to my town are villagers I actually want. But that's interesting. Just to me, the pattern is that those I'm fairly close with (not necessarily best friends) are those that wants to move out. Tbh, I'm offended lol. I assumed that was just Animal Crossing's thing. I remember in the movie, Ai's close friend Margie moved out. That was a neat nod to the game though haha.

Also, don't they NOT ping when you don't talk to them for a long time? So is it like, they just move out randomly?

 

[Tomoe Hotaru]

Me too. The only new villagers that move in to my town are villagers I actually want. But that's interesting. Just to me, the pattern is that those I'm fairly close with (not necessarily best friends) are those that wants to move out. Tbh, I'm offended lol. I assumed that was just Animal Crossing's thing. I remember in the movie, Ai's close friend Margie moved out. That was a neat nod to the game though haha.

Also, don't they NOT ping when you don't talk to them for a long time? So is it like, they just move out randomly?

Well I talk to my dreamies when we see eachother and make sure to bother two of them each day untill I get my rumor from both or the "x wants to move" - quote from one of them. Then I try to trigger the ping from the villager that wants to move and tell them to stay/move. If the ping doesn?t trigger after a few tries, I talk to them once and get the "I haven?t seen you in forever!!"- text. After leaving for a few minutes they should give you the normal "I?m moving"-ping with the date immediately. It?s not that complex^^

 

[Croconaw]

aw dang it. i realise that I just lost a villager. See, I asked a villager to move in from another town and later in that same day I asked yet another to move in. So oops.

I understand what you are saying. You asked one villager to move on on July 12th. Within the same day, July 12th, you’ve asked another villager to move in. Will the second villager overwrite the first? Will the first villager not move in? Will you only receive the second villager?

Also, July 12th is just a random day I said. I was just putting that day to be more specific. I honestly do not know the answer either. I was clarifying the question, because I would like to know an answer. I am curious, as well!

 

[CaramelCookie]

I understand what you are saying. You asked one villager to move on on July 12th. Within the same day, July 12th, you’ve asked another villager to move in. Will the second villager overwrite the first? Will the first villager not move in? Will you only receive the second villager?

Also, July 12th is just a random day I said. I was just putting that day to be more specific. I honestly do not know the answer either. I was clarifying the question, because I would like to know an answer. I am curious, as well!

The second invite overwrites the first, yes. The first villager will never move in.
The same happens, let's say, if you have a space and invite a villager and, in the same day, have a visitor over with a villager in their void. The one that'll move will be the voided villager, not the one you invited, sine the most recent overwrites the previous one. Been there done that.

 

[Tomoe Hotaru]

The second invite overwrites the first, yes. The first villager will never move in.
The same happens, let's say, if you have a space and invite a villager and, in the same day, have a visitor over with a villager in their void. The one that'll move will be the voided villager, not the one you invited, sine the most recent overwrites the previous one. Been there done that.

Thanks for clearig that up, I didn?t know about the voided ones (also I always forget this term...), but it makes a lot of sense!

 

[Croconaw]

Thank you! That sounds tedious. I’ve never had that experience happen to me! I’m glad I was able to get the villagers that I’ve traded for or paid for. I would hate losing out on a villager that was part of a trade or transaction.

That definitely makes sense, though! That’s what I would have figured would happen, but I just wanted to be sure. Thank you for the explanation.

 

[Underneath The Stars]

The second invite overwrites the first, yes. The first villager will never move in.
The same happens, let's say, if you have a space and invite a villager and, in the same day, have a visitor over with a villager in their void. The one that'll move will be the voided villager, not the one you invited, sine the most recent overwrites the previous one. Been there done that.

What a mess. I didn?t know that about voided villagers.

 

[Croconaw]

I keep forgetting about the void. I’ll have to remember not to have any visitors in my town when I’m in the middle of a getting a villager. Can the void still happen if I’m visiting that person’s town?

 

[Tomoe Hotaru]

Adding to Feraligatr?s question: Does the void affect you if you have 9 villagers? I would find it really annoying if I could get someone move in randomly just because of trades.....

 

[streetspirit]

Agh. I really should be more careful sometimes.