Post your ways of cycling villagers here!

[A Legend]

Hi so I wonder what is your way of cycling - what is the most efficient wa of cycling? What suites you? Comment with your response and instructions and I'll make a list of ways and bump it up occasionally to help TBTers! Don't forget to rate your way out of 10 depending on how well it works and warnings too! Thanks!


Cycling ways

(we have nothing currently)

 

[monk]

i use the 2 year 5 days method but thats only if you don't want to keep any villagers. i used to use the 2 day forward 2 day back method when i kept villagers. i voided a few villagers on accident using that method so i prefer the 2 years 5 days method lol

 

[Rinny_]

1. Go forward days at a time until someone pings
a. If you want them, Decline their offer to leave and TT to his or her moving date.
b. If you don't want them, Accept their offer to leave and TT to his or her moving date (or day before if you are giving him/her away)

2. Repeat.

3. If you need to go back at any point, just go back. TTing backwards, no matter the amount of days, is always 1 day.

 

[Sanaki]

2 years 5 days method. ヽ(*・ω・)ﾉ

 

[sunkyung]

So, mine always worked well for me when I was cycling villagers out in both Pokka and Forest. And there was a growing number of dreamies. I made a TT mistake when I first started cycling in Pokka. I had been using Bamdom's guide on tumblr. :[ but I figured out a way that made me never lose a dreamie again!

*You need the Beautiful Town Ordinance unless you want a lot of weeds
*This guide is for if you have 9 or 10 villagers
1) Day 1. Talk to all your villagers at least once (twice is good, or however many times you want)
2) TT ONE day, this is Day 2. Walk around and see if someone pings you. If nobody pings, just TT to the next day.
3) Keep repeating step 2 until someone pings, never skipping a day.
4) Someone pinged you! Awesome. But you don't want them to leave. Not awesome. Say Deirdre said she was leaving on August 8th and the current date is August 3rd. Reject that idea, tell them to go back to their house and to never joke with you like that again. Talk to ALL of your villagers that day (you may need to save quit and re-load to get everyone)
5) TT TO THE DAY BEFORE THEY SAID THEY WERE MOVING. So in this case, you would TT to August 7th.
6) Someone else will ALWAYS ping you. This is something that has worked for me 10/10 times. Don't want them? Tell them to get out, talk to all your villagers that day and TT to the day after they move. Whatever!
7) After you TT them out, and you're on the day after they leave, you're on Day 1 again. Make sure you talk to everybody and repeat. (Unless you started with 9, then you'll need to adopt or keep TTing day by day until someone new moves in.

This is a pretty slow way of cycling and I only did this because I wasn't looking to put any random villager in boxes because I already had dreamies. This way has worked consistently for me though, for a couple reasons.

1) If you're talking to every villager at least once during the day, they'll be happy. So when they ping you, you can TT to the day BEFORE they said they were going to leave because it's less than one week. If you don't talk to a villager for 7 days, they will no longer ping you and you won't know who is moving.
2) If you're doing this right and not missing a ping, then the villager will tell you they're moving away 5 days from the current date, so you'll TT 4 days and have a 3 day buffer beforehand to make sure nobody is leaving.

Some general TTing notes:
-You're gonna have a lot of stuff buried after this if your game is at the current date. We are in summer and it will rain often for another few weeks I believe. It doesn't matter if you have gyroids already buried, if it rains again, more get buried. I was TTing in May and it was the worst.

-If you have 9 or 10 villagers, this method will work for you. I've never had a villager try to move when I was at 8. The game has a "natural balance" of 9 villagers so if you get 10, someone will want to leave. This is something that happened infrequently, but usually the day a new villager moved in and either their plot was up or they were in boxes to move in, someone would ping me that day.

-Make sure you keep track of your days because it does make a difference! Skipping a day can end with a villager being in boxes. :\

-This is random but I know that some people don't know that you can hold villagers in boxes for more than one day if you TT back ON THE SAME DAY to any time AFTER 6am. Say it's 2:30am on August 4th and someone hasn't picked up Zucker from your town. You can TT back any time AFTER 6am on August 3rd and he will stay in boxes. :3

That's it! This is how I cycled out all of my villagers and I ended up moving a lotttt of them from Pokka and Forest.

- - - Post Merge - - -

Okay, I guess mine is basically was qwerty said except a lot more wordy and superfluous. ;__;

 

[Zulehan]

I use the 1 year-1 year-5 day method described in http://www.belltreeforums.com/showthread.php?152911-Foolproof-Cycling-Method&highlight=cycling with the following change I describe in http://www.belltreeforums.com/showt...cling-Method&p=3233760&viewfull=1#post3233760 that allows me to keep the villagers I want:

1: TT one year.
2: TT one year.
3: Get on 'speaking terms' with villagers.
4: Save and quit.
5. Run around to find a villager who pings to move.
6: Refuse to let that villager go.
7: Acting as if that villager were 'in boxes,' TT five days.
8: Run around to find a villager who pings to move.
9: Accept the villager's decision to move.
10: TT another five days to find THAT villager 'in boxes.'
11: Continue the cycling as usual.

 

[monk]

I use the 1 year-1 year-5 day method described in http://www.belltreeforums.com/showthread.php?152911-Foolproof-Cycling-Method&highlight=cycling with the following change I describe in http://www.belltreeforums.com/showt...cling-Method&p=3233760&viewfull=1#post3233760 that allows me to keep the villagers I want:

wow thanks for this! i was wondering if there was a way to stop a villager while using that method ^___^

 

[Zulehan]

wow thanks for this! i was wondering if there was a way to stop a villager while using that method ^___^

Yay, glad I helped.

 

[A Legend]

OMG these are all so good! Once I get back on my computer I'll create a table for all this! Thank you all for contributing so far! Let's keep em coming! How about some where you can get a specific to move with hardly any tt forward? I heard there was one where you travel 4 days forward and blah and what about the one where you travek 2 days forward and back? How does that work? Once again thanks and keep em coming!

 

[ukulele]

Please do share the table if you make one, Legend. That would be super useful for someone like me who wants to see a bunch of different methods. Still not sure which to use. I think I like sunkyung's a lot, but possibly because of how thoroughly he/she explained it. Idk.

 

[A Legend]

I will! Yeah he/she's way of explaining was great! Bump this up through the night for suggestions to kick villagers out - the more the merrier!

 

[MightyMunchlax]

For me my cycling method is slow, but it allows me to enjoy villagers and still cycle them. Basically I load up each day and I go check my shops (I'm hoarding bush starts and also looking for particular items for my main) then I talk to everyone in town at least once unless they ask me to do something which depending on what it is I will either do or ignore (typically if they ask me to bring them something like furniture or a fish I ignore it, but if they ask me to bring someone something I'll go run and do it) then once everyone has been talked to and if there wasn't a move out or a tent or any other event going on in town, I save quit, load back up and TT to the next day with Isabelle. I don't use the system clock because I have two games on the same DS and I don't want to mess up my main. But once I get to the next day I do the same thing over again. Each day takes about 10-15 minutes depending. I'm usually pretty quick going through shops cause I'm looking for very particular things so if they don't have it I'm in and out in about 10 seconds. Villager errands take the longest, but some days I just ignore everyone and TT another day forward. I don't usually go too long without talking to everyone unless I'm TTing a villager out in which case I ignore everyone and just check the shops quickly then save quit. There's really no method to my cycling. I just wanted to do it to help others get their dreamies and for me to be able to experience new villagers outside of having to give up my dreamies on my main.

 

[MC4pros]

I used to use this method (http://www.belltreeforums.com/showt...mies-and-not-lose-a-single-one-plus-get-weeds!!) when I had my cycling town.