Question about time traveling and villagers

[Red Cat]

I've heard that if a villager pings you to move and you tell that villager to stay, then you can TT as far forward or backward as you want from that day and no villagers will move out. Is this true 100% of the time or is this a myth? I'd appreciate an answer from someone who does this a lot successfully or has tried to do this and lost a villager because I've spent a lot of time getting all of my dream villagers and would hate to lose one trying to time travel.

Oh, and if this does work, then when is the earliest day a villager can move out from the day I TT to?

 

[Raffy]

Once someone pings me (that I want to stay), I usually TT to the day that they say they are going to move and from there try to get someone that I don't want to ping me.

For example,

Beau says he wants to move on April 30th, but I tell him to stay.
I TT to April 30th and continue to cycle from there.

 

[Red Cat]

I'm not trying to cycle. I already have all of my dream villagers in my town and don't want any of them to move. Basically, I want to time travel a few months back and forth to holidays, and I want to know that if I denied a villager's request to move today, can I go forward a month or a year without risking losing anyone?

 

[Khaelis]

I'm not trying to cycle. I already have all of my dream villagers in my town and don't want any of them to move. Basically, I want to time travel a few months back and forth to holidays, and I want to know that if I denied a villager's request to move today, can I go forward a month or a year without risking losing anyone?

I can answer this: No matter how many days you travel BACKWARDS, it will only count as a single in-game day.

 

[RainyInVancouver]

Khaelis is correct in that moving back, no matter how far, only counts as one day.

You can indeed move as far forward as you want immediately after denying a move request. Once you get to that date, you must talk to all the villagers to remind them who you are. If you don't talk to them, then no one will ping you to let you know they want to move and you might lose someone. Make sure you find every villager and speak to them. Once that is done, I would move forward one day and see if anyone pings to move ... that is very likely to happen. I wouldn't make another big jump until I got a ping.

Edited for proper grammar.

 

[Raffy]

Khaelis is correct in that moving back, no matter how far, only counts as one day.

You can indeed move as far forward as far as you want immediately after denying a move request. Once you get to that date, you must talk to all the villagers to remind them who you are. If you don't talk to them, then no one will ping you to let you know they want to move and you might lose someone. Make sure you find every villager and speak to them. Once that is done, I would move forward one day and see if anyone pings to move ... that is very likely to happen. I wouldn't make another big jump until I got a ping.

WTF I ALSO LIVE IN VANCOUVER AND CAN RELATE TO YOUR NAME

 

[Red Cat]

Khaelis is correct in that moving back, no matter how far, only counts as one day.

You can indeed move as far forward as far as you want immediately after denying a move request. Once you get to that date, you must talk to all the villagers to remind them who you are. If you don't talk to them, then no one will ping you to let you know they want to move and you might lose someone. Make sure you find every villager and speak to them. Once that is done, I would move forward one day and see if anyone pings to move ... that is very likely to happen. I wouldn't make another big jump until I got a ping.

Thank you. That is what I thought, but there is a lot of misinformation which gets thrown around, so I wasn't completely sure that was true. I just wanted to have some people verify that it is true.