PWP "Farming" Question

[Frjck]

Should I create a PWP Farming guide in the near future?

Spoiler: Old Stuff, not vaild anymore

I have been going out to the water in the wetsuit and waiting 5-10 minutes and going on shore and walking in front of villagers that are outside, with my pockets filled, so they ping. Yesterday I spent 4pm-9pm doing this and got no PWPs. I have talked to everyone outside at least once everyday, but all they ping for is tasks and favors. Is there anything I missed? c:

 

[moonchu]

hopefully your pockets are filled with flowers and etc, not things they can buy. i don't think you missed anything though. they shouldn't be able to give you presents to deliver or anything. mostly it's like catch phrase or maybe fruit tasks, or random quizzes etc. mayhaps just bad luck?

 

[littleporkchop]

I have been going out to the water in the wetsuit and waiting 5-10 minutes and going on shore and walking in front of villagers that are outside, with my pockets filled, so they ping. Yesterday I spent 4pm-9pm doing this and got no PWPs. I have talked to everyone outside at least once everyday, but all they ping for is tasks and favors. Is there anything I missed? c:

Swimming doesn't actually increase the chance of your villagers pinging you for public works projects. That is just a myth.

 

[Frjck]

hopefully your pockets are filled with flowers and etc, not things they can buy. i don't think you missed anything though. they shouldn't be able to give you presents to deliver or anything. mostly it's like catch phrase or maybe fruit tasks, or random quizzes etc. mayhaps just bad luck?

Yup, pockets filled with fossils that were not reviewed by Blathers, tools and flowers. I feel it is bad luck... Once I spent 8+ hours to get Drago out for a trade ;-;

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Swimming doesn't actually increase the chance of your villagers pinging you for public works projects. That is just a myth.

Hmm that is interesting...

 

[moonchu]

it's not necessarily a myth. if you go off screen or far enough away from your villagers for an extended period of time, upon seeing them one will ping you. you don't have to dive or swim for it, though.

 

[littleporkchop]

it's not necessarily a myth. if you go off screen or far enough away from your villagers for an extended period of time, upon seeing them one will ping you. you don't have to dive or swim for it, though.

While this is true that it does increase the ping chance, it doesn't really increase the chance of your villagers suggesting a pwp.

 

[Frjck]

While this is true that it does increase the ping chance, it doesn't really increase the chance of your villagers suggesting a pwp.

Yup, but increasing the ping increases PWP chance.

 

[moonchu]

Yup, but increasing the ping increases PWP chance.

^.

 

[Frjck]

Bump because I need a third opinion

 

[nevvleaf]

hello! i just want to share my opinion!
luckily for me, when i do the diving trick my villagers are nice enough to suggest public works projects. i just make sure to keep my pockets full of flowers and wait like 5 minutes in a far corner of the ocean. i noticed that if one villager wants to change your nickname (and if you agree) then other villagers will be pinging you to change your nickname instead of suggesting public works projects. something else i noticed that if you time travel back to a day they already suggested a public works project, they wont ping for a public works project that day (well, at least in my case) also, make sure its not a holiday! (they wont suggest anything those days)
and uh, thats all i can remember for now, but i hope that helps!

 

[Frjck]

hello! i just want to share my opinion!
luckily for me, when i do the diving trick my villagers are nice enough to suggest public works projects. i just make sure to keep my pockets full of flowers and wait like 5 minutes in a far corner of the ocean. i noticed that if one villager wants to change your nickname (and if you agree) then other villagers will be pinging you to change your nickname instead of suggesting public works projects. something else i noticed that if you time travel back to a day they already suggested a public works project, they wont ping for a public works project that day (well, at least in my case) also, make sure its not a holiday! (they wont suggest anything those days)
and uh, thats all i can remember for now, but i hope that helps!

Thank you! I have noticed only 1 villager pings after coming back from the sea. Just for clarification, when you allow the nickname, another villager will ping for a PWP in the same time? Or do I have to go back to the sea? Just wondering! Thank you again

 

[stitchmaker]

When I did it I made sure to fill my pockets with shells or flowers. Once I had a fishing rod in my pocket and they asked for a fish.

I go over to the corner of town and harvest my perfect fruit. Come back with the baskets and have been stopped for PWP.
Got the windmill and a scarecrow in two days.

 

[OneTimeUser]

Weighing in on this matter:

• Like others have said, swimming doesn't affect ping rates. It seems to depend on villagers being off-screen a certain distance for a certain length of time. Swimming just happens to satisfy those conditions. For the record, I usually hang out on the end of the dock or in a far northern corner of town. That's far enough 99% of the time.
• Villagers will only ping you once every 5 minutes or so. The same villager often only pings you once every 30 minutes (read this somewhere, not tested personally but seems about right from casual observation)
• Villagers will not ping you at all if you've "been playing for too long." Talking to any villager so they suggest taking a break will cause pings to occur again, sometimes immediately. For example, two of my villagers were very close to each other and neither pinged me. I began talking to one, who suggested taking a break, and the other pinged me as soon as the conversation had started. This has happened several times.
• Filling your pockets with undesirable items (flowers, gyroids, unidentified fossils, etc) reduces the number of things a ping-ing villager will talk about, thus indirectly increasing PWPs suggestions.
• Villagers will not suggest a PWP if their personality type has no more PWPs to suggest and all of the "any villager" PWPs have been suggested (duh).
• Time spent in Sleep Mode doesn't count towards pings. (Also read, I leave my 3DS open and charging while farming just to be safe.)
• You can only get 1 PWP ping per day (also read, but I've never gotten a second PWP suggestion after several hours of trying on multiple occasions so it seems accurate.)
• In-game Luck doesn't affect pings (and by extension, PWP-pings) to any noticeable degree. At least I haven't seen any effects after multiple sessions with both low and high Luck.

This is all based on what I've seen directly, and what I've read from others that have done extensive testing.

 

[Imstillyourzelda]

Usually, when I'm slightly busy with other things, I'll rev up my game to farm pwp pings. Like when I'm doing homework, reading a book, on the phone, etc.

Before I do this though, I walk around the whole village to see who is wandering about and where. I don't keep anything in my pockets except tools. Then all I do is go down to the beach and hang around on the sand or the dock area until exactly five minutes has passed. I then approach all the villagers I know are wandering about until I get a ping.

One of the last few times I did this, I was busy musing about online, but I had my ds on standby for a few hours. Every 5 minutes I would be checking for pings. I got 4 pwp pings that day, if I remember that correctly.

 

[Frjck]

Weighing in on this matter:

• Like others have said, swimming doesn't affect ping rates. It seems to depend on villagers being off-screen a certain distance for a certain length of time. Swimming just happens to satisfy those conditions. For the record, I usually hang out on the end of the dock or in a far northern corner of town. That's far enough 99% of the time.
• Villagers will only ping you once every 5 minutes or so. The same villager often only pings you once every 30 minutes (read this somewhere, not tested personally but seems about right from casual observation)
• Villagers will not ping you at all if you've "been playing for too long." Talking to any villager so they suggest taking a break will cause pings to occur again, sometimes immediately. For example, two of my villagers were very close to each other and neither pinged me. I began talking to one, who suggested taking a break, and the other pinged me as soon as the conversation had started. This has happened several times.
• Filling your pockets with undesirable items (flowers, gyroids, unidentified fossils, etc) reduces the number of things a ping-ing villager will talk about, thus indirectly increasing PWPs suggestions.
• Villagers will not suggest a PWP if their personality type has no more PWPs to suggest and all of the "any villager" PWPs have been suggested (duh).
• Time spent in Sleep Mode doesn't count towards pings. (Also read, I leave my 3DS open and charging while farming just to be safe.)
• You can only get 1 PWP ping per day (also read, but I've never gotten a second PWP suggestion after several hours of trying on multiple occasions so it seems accurate.)
• In-game Luck doesn't affect pings (and by extension, PWP-pings) to any noticeable degree. At least I haven't seen any effects after multiple sessions with both low and high Luck.

This is all based on what I've seen directly, and what I've read from others that have done extensive testing.

A few things about this:
I believe you can get 5 PWPs a day, probably proven, i highly doubt the limit is 1

I think i had the same villager ping me in 10-20 minutes, not quite exact on the minutes but idk.

The "playing for too long thing" is true. The first day I tried to to this, i didnt talk to my villagers during the whole 5 hour process, and no one pinged. Second day, talked to one villager every 30 min, got at least one ping every time i came out.

Just speaking (or typing) out aloud so if I ever forget I can look back at this

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Usually, when I'm slightly busy with other things, I'll rev up my game to farm pwp pings. Like when I'm doing homework, reading a book, on the phone, etc.

Before I do this though, I walk around the whole village to see who is wandering about and where. I don't keep anything in my pockets except tools. Then all I do is go down to the beach and hang around on the sand or the dock area until exactly five minutes has passed. I then approach all the villagers I know are wandering about until I get a ping.

One of the last few times I did this, I was busy musing about online, but I had my ds on standby for a few hours. Every 5 minutes I would be checking for pings. I got 4 pwp pings that day, if I remember that correctly.

Thank you for the advice! I think i should plant more perfect fruit trees so I can do the same

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Thank you everyone who has posted just an update: I plopped down a fire hydrant because I was thinking villagers might not be suggesting PWPs because I haven't build any. Third day doing "farming" and still no PWPs ): At least I am getting play time down

 

[Frjck]

OMG I AM QUITE LITERALLY ON THE VERGE OF TEARS! Hamphrey just suggested the wind turbine :') Three days and over 10 hours c: I am still no where close to the flower garden -_-"

 

[Frjck]

11 days, and the quest has been completed! Now to litter my town with 30 of them... I am considering making a guide to PWP farming in the future!

 

[Kippy]

Make sure you talk to them after a while. If they say something along the lines of "you look tired" save. quit, and reload

 

[Frjck]

Make sure you talk to them after a while. If they say something along the lines of "you look tired" save. quit, and reload

You dont nessesaryily have to save a quit, the next animal that sees you, pings.

Example:
>Wait in ocean for 5+ min, surface and run around
>no one pings, "activating" the "you should take a break" dialouge
>talk to any animal, preferable any animal that is close to the "target villager" (a villager with compatible personality for PWP)
>next villager that sees you pings!
>reset process by going back into the ocean