Randomization of NMT Island Villagers

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Hello, I have a question that I'm wondering if anyone can answer...

I know datamining has revealed that there is a system to how villagers are randomized on the islands. There is supposedly an equal chance of each villager species. Then, once the species is determined (35 species in all, and each one is equally likely to appear), the individual of that species is determined randomly.

What I'm wondering is this: Is your game more likely to receive certain species, depending on unknown factors..? For example, I always seem to have deer and penguin villagers on my islands. I've seen Fuana, Diana, Bam, Lopez, Wade, Boomer, Flo (like 10 times), Sprinkle, Hopper, etc.
Meanwhile, my sister has seen none of those villagers and in her game she seems to find a ton of cat and lion villagers. I've never seen a cat villager on an island lol.

Was this truly randomized and it's just been a coincidence that I'm getting penguins and deer and she's getting cats? Or is there some other system in place?
 
I'm wondering the same thing! I've been very unlucky on my nmt trips... i've only been seeing cows, gorillas, and bulls while my sister has seen a fair amount of cat villagers ( she found rosie on her very first nmt trip :( )
 
I haven’t used so many NMT because I was lucky enough to settle very fast for the first 3 villagers. When it came to the 7th tho, I tried to find Fauna like crazy and all I could see were Leonard and Jambette. I hate Jambette, she looks like my worst nightmare with those crazy lips and within 10 NMT, spread in two days I saw her 3 times.
 
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