Old lady question here

[Watchingthetreetops]

you kids and your amibos! * shakes old lady fist

How does this work? I honestly have no idea. I want to get the meow coupons and get some of the neat furniture in the camping area. I read that this was just for the amibo events, but I don't know how to participate in those. I haven't played acnl since before they did this, so I suppose you could call me a confused old lady. Any help anyone?

 

[Antonio]

"An old 3DS doesn't have amiibo capability and will need an adapter. The New 3DS has a sensor built into the bottom screen. You would only be prompted to use an amiibo/amiibo card once you have loaded the game it is used for."

You scan the card/amiibo and villagers will visit your campsite. You can purchase exclusive items form the RVs. You can also invite villagers to live in your town from the RV. Am I missing anything!?

 

[ElderPlops]

As Antonio says. If your older 3DS model does not have NFC reader, you'll need to get one. I purchased one directly from the Nintendo website - https://store.nintendo.com/ng3/browse/productDetailColorSizePicker.jsp?productId=prod930078 - sadly it is out of stock, but at least it shows you what it looks like.

If you have a newer version, it's built into the touchscreen. Once you have Wisp in your game, you will summon him by pressing "A" when you are right at his lamp inside your house. He will go through his blurb of stuff he says every time, then there will be directions. For older 3DS, it will ask you to turn on your NFC reader, then tap the card on it. For the new 3DS/2DS, it will just ask you to scan the card directly on the touchscreen.

Non-RV villagers will show up. You either ask them to move in or give you something. For RV villagers, it's "come and play." They will go to your campsite.

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

you kids and your amibos! * shakes old lady fist

How does this work? I honestly have no idea. I want to get the meow coupons and get some of the neat furniture in the camping area. I read that this was just for the amibo events, but I don't know how to participate in those. I haven't played acnl since before they did this, so I suppose you could call me a confused old lady. Any help anyone?

If you want to visit someone and order from an rv they scanned in, it will cost 5 coupons per item. There is a limit of 3 orders a day.

 

[ivorystar]

Be careful when you talk to the villagers inside the rv. They might say, "I want to move into your town!" Once they move they NEVER move out unless you move them out with another amiibo. Good luck!

 

[hoodathotit]

you kids and your amibos! * shakes old lady fist

How does this work? I honestly have no idea. I want to get the meow coupons and get some of the neat furniture in the camping area. I read that this was just for the amibo events, but I don't know how to participate in those. I haven't played acnl since before they did this, so I suppose you could call me a confused old lady. Any help anyone?

Whippersnapper!

 

[kemdi]

Be careful when you talk to the villagers inside the rv. They might say, "I want to move into your town!" Once they move they NEVER move out unless you move them out with another amiibo. Good luck!

This...isn't true. They may ask to move less often, but they do eventually ask to move.

 

[John Wick]

It took 6 months for one of my amiibo's to ping to move.

I ended up getting rid of everyone, and having ten amiibo's, since waiting for them to ping is pointless.

 

[ivorystar]

This...isn't true. They may ask to move less often, but they do eventually ask to move.

reallly? I didn't know that. Wolf link is still in my town and he's been forever!

 

[ElderPlops]

No, my Amiibo villagers ask to move out. Two of them have asked to move now, so it's definitely not true. It might take longer than a normal villager, but they do ask to move out.

 

[John Wick]

When you have 9 amiibo's, yeah, they will ping every second time.
If you let one go and get a second non amiibo, the non amiibo's will take turns pinging.

If you have ten amiibo's, they ping like normal, but if you let a non amiibo in, then it goes back to every second ping.

I gave up waiting, so I figured I couldn't win. There were 7 that never pinged the entire year, so I got rid of everyone and moved all amiibo's in, since my choice for random move-ins, or inviting a campsite villager to move in had been taken away, as I didn't know back then, that amiibo's would ruin everything.

Rather than delete my town, I just gave up on trying to get them to move, and made it an all amiibo town.

 

[Watchingthetreetops]

So...I'm excited. I'll need to get a new ds, but that's not really a big deal. I'm going to get some amiibo stuff and watch fun movies and play acnl. I've gotten really into my game again.

 

[Chicha]

If you live in the US, you could get the NFC reader from any major retailer like Target, Best Buy, Walmart, & Game Stop. You can also buy amiibo cards from them but I'll have to warn you it's gotten very difficult to find amiibo cards these days. They are no longer being produced so you have to look online or call the stores if they have any in stock. If you do manage to find any and get duplicates, there's plenty of people willing to trade on the Amiibo Card Post Office section of the forum.

Good luck!

 

[Hat']

This...isn't true. They may ask to move less often, but they do eventually ask to move.

It's half true, you have to wait for years for them to ping if you don't have the correct ratio normal/amiibo and it's HELL.

 

[kemdi]

It's half true, you have to wait for years for them to ping if you don't have the correct ratio normal/amiibo and it's HELL.

To be honest...I'm not sure how much of that I agree with. :/ Please don't misunderstand, I'm not saying you or anyone else is wrong. But in my experience, that hasn't happened. For example, my main town has an even split between amiibo and camping villagers, with 2 implants from other towns(4 amiibo -Hopkins, Boots, Maddie, Ellie-; 4 campers -Roscoe, Lucky, Whitney, Twiggy-; 2 implants -Flo, Beardo). At this time I don't want anyone to move out because I like all my current villagers, but over the last few weeks or so, I've had Hopkins, Ellie, Maddie, Lucky, Whitney, and Twiggy ask to move. Roscoe asks every once in a while. And I don't remember any recent request from Boots, but I do remember he asked once a long while ago. Flo and Beardo have not asked to move at all, and I've had them for at least a year now.

So yeah, I'm not claiming to know everything, and I sincerely hope I don't come off that way, and if I did, I apologize, as it's not my intention. However, I'm only going by what my experience has been. And from what I've seen, they do ask to move. Maybe a little less often, but not that much less in my experience. The next time I get a move request from any of my amiibo villagers I'll post some pics.

And if it's been yours and other's experience that they don't ask to move often, then that's fine, it is what it is. I honestly don't know how the move criteria works after the WA update, I'm just reporting what I've seen.

 

[John Wick]

I had an even split for the first 6 months.
4 amiibo's, 4 regular.

Only the non amiibo's pinged.
They did it in order too.

Near the 7 month mark is when one of my amiibo's pinged.

Realizing it could take literally YEARS to get rid of the others, I booted everyone out, learned to plot reset (I hadn't known about it back then) and moved in ten amiibo's, making it (not what I wanted, but had no other choice other than delete my town.) an all amiibo town.

I couldn't beat them, so I joined them.

 

[Bueller]

I moved in Inkwell as soon as Welcome Amiibo was added and he hasn't pinged to move out once since then. Amiibo villagers definitely have a drastically smaller chance to ping. That being said I'm happy with his house placement so I really don't mind.

 

[kemdi]

Flo finally asked to move! She's not a WA villager though. Regardless, I told her no, as I don't want anyone to leave right now.
I think what's happening with me is that I don't actually want any of my villagers to move out. So I'm not really keeping a close watch on the request rate, just that I know I've gotten them. Compared to someone who wants a specific villager out sooner than later, it may be why it looks like everyone is asking at a similar rate to me. Since I play often, I'm gonna try to start keeping a closer count of who asks to move and when. Maybe I'll be able to see a difference once I'm paying more attention to it.