question for cyclers

[mogyay]

so basically i always do the tt a year, tt another year, tt 5 day method and it works a charm however in my previous cycling town stitches never left, i cycled hundreds of villagers and he refused to budge, i got so annoyed at him that i started another cycling town. and now the exact same thing is happening.

has anyone else experienced this? is there any way to get them to leave?

 

[Maruchan]

Hi: From my own experiences, there are a numbers of ways to trigger them to move / avoiding them to become one of those dreadful 'anchor' villagers.

Sad, sad disclaimer: I have one very determined O'Hare who anchored himself in Tamago.
(my oldest cycling town from 1.5 years ago)
HE IS STILL THERE. So I totally feel your frustrating with Stitches.

Have you tried drastically changing the cycling month/season?
- when 'looping' within a set of cycling days (i.e. my Spring town is always looping on 4/2/2013, 4/2/2014, then 4/7/2014)
if that villager has a birthday within or even close to that month, they are much much less likely to move.
Especially so if you have talked to them, or you received a BDay invite from said villager.
I have very successfully experimented this on several Shari.

- try not talk to them if you don't have to. If you must, save before starting the convo, then quit without saving.
(this would be handy if you need to verify if a villager is original / from others' void, etc)

- One good way is to go into their houses, hang around for a min, take some pics then leave without talking to them.
In my experiences this make them more likely to move out sooner, if not immediately in the next round.

- if you have previously talked to Stitches and haven't done so since, talk to him briefly again *might* renew his chances of moving.
(as you are on speaking terms again and all that)

- Pick another one or two villagers that you choose to talk to / visit their houses, that way the game will see that you have sort of build up friendship with others and not just Stitches. This will kinda trigger the chance of him moving.

Pardon my wall of text. Hopefully this would be somewhat helpful lol. ^^;;
Congrats on your new cycling town & Good Luck!! <3

 

[HMCaprica]

I always do the 2 days forward method then go one more day then back to the present and repeat and i have gotten a lot more villagers to leave that way then the other methods. What I mean is I go two days forward from the present day. I check around for pings then I go one more day check around for pings(I usually find one on the third day and then after I find them I go back to the present day. I have never had a problem getting anyone to leave too much. One time one of them stuck around a little longer then most but what i did was befriend him a little by little and then stopped talking to him. he then wanted to go. I think they have that trigger(even if it is random) that if you befriend them to a certain point then ignore them a little they get that need factor of wanting to move.

I don't know if this helps you at all but it has helped me in both of my towns. I have gotten all of my dreamies and all of the other villagers out usually within 2 weeks.

 

[mogyay]

Hi: From my own experiences, there are a numbers of ways to trigger them to move / avoiding them to become one of those dreadful 'anchor' villagers.

Sad, sad disclaimer: I have one very determined O'Hare who anchored himself in Tamago.
(my oldest cycling town from 1.5 years ago)
HE IS STILL THERE. So I totally feel your frustrating with Stitches.

Have you tried drastically changing the cycling month/season?
- when 'looping' within a set of cycling days (i.e. my Spring town is always looping on 4/2/2013, 4/2/2014, then 4/7/2014)
if that villager has a birthday within or even close to that month, they are much much less likely to move.
Especially so if you have talked to them, or you received a BDay invite from said villager.
I have very successfully experimented this on several Shari.

- try not talk to them if you don't have to. If you must, save before starting the convo, then quit without saving.
(this would be handy if you need to verify if a villager is original / from others' void, etc)

- One good way is to go into their houses, hang around for a min, take some pics then leave without talking to them.
In my experiences this make them more likely to move out sooner, if not immediately in the next round.

- if you have previously talked to Stitches and haven't done so since, talk to him briefly again *might* renew his chances of moving.
(as you are on speaking terms again and all that)

- Pick another one or two villagers that you choose to talk to / visit their houses, that way the game will see that you have sort of build up friendship with others and not just Stitches. This will kinda trigger the chance of him moving.

Pardon my wall of text. Hopefully this would be somewhat helpful lol. ^^;;
Congrats on your new cycling town & Good Luck!! <3

thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks maru, you are such a saint. i was actually gonna message you about it as well cause i remember you had a zucker that you couldn't get rid of(??) and ppl kept asking why he was on autovoid lmao. i'll try everything you suggested, thank you so much! i've been through spring-fall but i tend to avoid winter so maybe i'll try cycling round winter or just changing up my method. at this point i'd happily accidentally void her (hope the person i'm holding her for doesn't see this) and just get a new one. i actually think that talking to them was the initial problem. i never talk to any of the villagers but i accidentally pressed A near her (caroline is the problem in question) and i didn't think it would matter (how wrong i was~~) but i'm going to try and talk to a few more villagers to make her realise she's not special. ohh and i'll definitely try the pic thing! THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN FOR YOUR BEAUTIFUL AND DETAILED RESPONSE <3

edit: oh and good luck trying to get o'hare out! i really hope caroline doesn't become o'hare 2.0 or i'm just resetting my cycling town again haha

I always do the 2 days forward method then go one more day then back to the present and repeat and i have gotten a lot more villagers to leave that way then the other methods. What I mean is I go two days forward from the present day. I check around for pings then I go one more day check around for pings(I usually find one on the third day and then after I find them I go back to the present day. I have never had a problem getting anyone to leave too much. One time one of them stuck around a little longer then most but what i did was befriend him a little by little and then stopped talking to him. he then wanted to go. I think they have that trigger(even if it is random) that if you befriend them to a certain point then ignore them a little they get that need factor of wanting to move.

I don't know if this helps you at all but it has helped me in both of my towns. I have gotten all of my dreamies and all of the other villagers out usually within 2 weeks.

ohhhhhh thank you so much for your tip! i will definitely try that method as well then! as much as i love the cycling method i'm using this is twice this has happened and it's so frustrating! yes i think you're right, i'm going to try and make friends with her. in my main town that's what i'd do if i was trying to get someone to leave so i'll do it in my cycling town too! thank you so much for your advice, i appreciate it <3