Dark_Cecilia
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I don't care who, I just need to get a villager into boxes in my town that's gonna be my cycling town so I can cycle!
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Quick way to get a villager into boxes?
- Thread starter Dark_Cecilia
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If you're willing to time travel, save your game and quit. Then, go to your 3DS setting and set the calendar to a year from now or a date without any events coming up. Use a new character to check who's missing from your town, quit without saving, then set the calendar back again and use your mayor to find the villager who is missing in the future. If they don't immediately ping, talk to them a few times and see if they ask you about moving. If they don't, save and quit, reload the game, and go find that villager again. Do that until they ping you or tell you about leaving.
If you've denied a request to ping or if nobody is missing from the future map, save your game, go forward one day using your mayor, save and quit, and check a future date with the new character.
Just keep in mind when choosing your dates that villagers won't ping when an event is coming up.
If you've denied a request to ping or if nobody is missing from the future map, save your game, go forward one day using your mayor, save and quit, and check a future date with the new character.
Just keep in mind when choosing your dates that villagers won't ping when an event is coming up.
My methods 
Quickest way would be number 2, if done correctly and with a bit of luck as to which villager pings (got stuck with Flora for ages even with this method)
1) 2 days forward and 2 days back (Note: This sometimes does not work)
You basically TT 2 days ahead then go back. If you go back 2 days straight away, it will count as one day though. Unless you go back day by day. Then you run around your town and see if anyone pings/see if there is a rumour about (villager) thinking of leaving.
2) 6 days forward then back
Similar to the first method, but is guaranteed to work. Make sure that there are no rumours about a villager wanting to move, or this can go wrong. So, TT ahead 6 days. Save and quit. Change the date 6 days back in one go. Then go around the town and see who is wanting to leave. This method should work 100%, unless there is an event in the 6 days you were TT'ing forward to, which in that case, can screw it up.
3) Introduce yourself to them, then ignore (Again, not sure if this will work 100%)
You introduce yourself to them ONCE, then blatantly ignore them for around one week. If you have already talked to them on an existing character, make another Save File or introduce yourself to them on a side character. After around a week, they may ping and tell you that they want to leave.
* And, if you are a bit paranoid like me, and think that someone is wanting to leave without you knowing, do this:
- Go to your 3DS clock setting and change the clock to one year ahead
- Load up your game, on a New Save File
- After Rover's speech, check the town map
- If there is a house missing, this meant that someone in your town wanted to leave. If all of the houses are there, then no one was wanting to move
- Exit without saving, and set the date back to the correct date
- Go back into your game, and hunt down the villager who left 'one year later'. Or just continue TT'ing to get them out
Quickest way would be number 2, if done correctly and with a bit of luck as to which villager pings (got stuck with Flora for ages even with this method)
1) 2 days forward and 2 days back (Note: This sometimes does not work)
You basically TT 2 days ahead then go back. If you go back 2 days straight away, it will count as one day though. Unless you go back day by day. Then you run around your town and see if anyone pings/see if there is a rumour about (villager) thinking of leaving.
2) 6 days forward then back
Similar to the first method, but is guaranteed to work. Make sure that there are no rumours about a villager wanting to move, or this can go wrong. So, TT ahead 6 days. Save and quit. Change the date 6 days back in one go. Then go around the town and see who is wanting to leave. This method should work 100%, unless there is an event in the 6 days you were TT'ing forward to, which in that case, can screw it up.
3) Introduce yourself to them, then ignore (Again, not sure if this will work 100%)
You introduce yourself to them ONCE, then blatantly ignore them for around one week. If you have already talked to them on an existing character, make another Save File or introduce yourself to them on a side character. After around a week, they may ping and tell you that they want to leave.
* And, if you are a bit paranoid like me, and think that someone is wanting to leave without you knowing, do this:
- Go to your 3DS clock setting and change the clock to one year ahead
- Load up your game, on a New Save File
- After Rover's speech, check the town map
- If there is a house missing, this meant that someone in your town wanted to leave. If all of the houses are there, then no one was wanting to move
- Exit without saving, and set the date back to the correct date
- Go back into your game, and hunt down the villager who left 'one year later'. Or just continue TT'ing to get them out
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