It seems in this game that mechanic doesn't exist anymore. If you don't activate a villager's move-out dialogue, the game picks another villager the next day. People have been negating the move-out dialogue using the net to get a new move-out every day for quicker cycling, I hear?
Raymond moved out without asking ?
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Unless it was sneakily changed in the update?
I feel like we would have noticed by now, though o':
Ooh interesting... I'm too much of a coward to test it but I'll definitely look around for that change! I've just been around for this common upset where someone moves because someone missed them thinking about it :'D
I asked in this thread before about this too and I'm still curious - is there a source or proof of this anywhere? It has been in every game prior and I've never seen anyone say they can't move out randomly until I saw this thread, so I'm super curious when it was confirmed...
I mean people are TT'ing from April to December in one jump on youtube and no one moves out. I've confirmed it through my own TT'ing out of villagers, I've never had someone sneakily move out like OP is saying they experienced. Don't think many people, if any, have experienced a random move out with the villager not asking the player without some sort of glitch. Unless they changed something in the update which I'm 99% sure they didn't because I just TT'ed out a few villagers yesterday by jumping a month at a time with no villagers just moving out.
Isn't he in boxes but moving in?
No
He has only been outside once and I was up near where he was all day. He literally couldn't have asked to move out without me seeing it. But now I go into his house this morning and he says he's moving out.Rosie asked to move out, I got him in the campsite the next day and he replaced her, and he was unpacking the day after. Yesterday, he was outside and walking around and stuff but today he's moving out. I'm really upset.
Play “the bubble”—meaning, it is a way that, if an islander you want to stay has the bubble (consideration of moving out), exit your game and advance the date. That should be able to transfer the bubble to a different islander. It does not do that every time. Sometimes, you get a bubble repeat with the same islander; but, still, you exit the game and advance the date in effort to transfer that bubble to an islander you are willing to let go.
There is also the pattern of islanders not moving out without letting at least one human know. An islander does not necessarily let the island’s representative know first; it can be a secondary human. But if you tell that islander you are willing for him to go—he gets ready to go. Now, I haven’t tried this thoroughly—but there have been times an islander gets approval to go by one human and then lets another human know. It strikes me as consensus.
“New Horizons” is set up where an islander does not just leave. (This is opposite of “New Leaf.”) Some human—be it the representative or a secondary human—comes across an islander with the bubble and, if engaging that islander in conversation, gets confronted with the question, Do I [insert islander’s name] stay or go?
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He has only been outside once and I was up near where he was all day. He literally couldn't have asked to move out without me seeing it. But now I go into his house this morning and he says he's moving out.Rosie asked to move out, I got him in the campsite the next day and he replaced her, and he was unpacking the day after. Yesterday, he was outside and walking around and stuff but today he's moving out. I'm really upset.
Do you have a second player character? If you do, you can ask Pietro to stay with the second character. It sounds like a serious bug that a new villager via camper would move out immediately without a prompt. As far as I know, this shouldn't happen or possible without a bug.
Was this the over of events
Day 1: Pietro kicks out Rosie, Rosie in Boxes
Day 2: Empty plot sold to Pietro
Day 3: Pietro moves in and is unpacking
Day 4: He is in boxes to move out?
I'm so sorry this happened, never heard about thisNo
He has only been outside once and I was up near where he was all day. He literally couldn't have asked to move out without me seeing it. But now I go into his house this morning and he says he's moving out.Rosie asked to move out, I got him in the campsite the next day and he replaced her, and he was unpacking the day after. Yesterday, he was outside and walking around and stuff but today he's moving out. I'm really upset.
Bluebellie
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I heard This happening with glitched villagers.
WaileaNoRei
Once and forever
The net thing is not a method for moving the thought bubble. It will stop whatever thought bubble they are having at the moment (no way to know if it is a move out bubble when you first see it) but it doesn’t have any effect on moving the thought bubble. If you ignore the villager it would also move the next day. However, if you never talk to any villager with a thought bubble you will also miss them asking to set a secret greeting, change a catchphrase, asking for a favor or an exchange, etc. it is best to talk to them if they have a thought bubble and if it is the move out request and you want it to move to another villager the next day, reset your game without saving and then don’t talk to that villager when they have a thought bubble for the rest of the day. (If you want to keep all your villagers it is best to answer no, because then no one will ask again for about 5 days.)
Idk, I know some people just like to hit villagers with nets, but it does not have a meaningful effect on the move out thought bubble.
Also, to the people asking above, it has been confirmed that villagers will never move out without your permission, unlike in previous games.
Guys, HELP!!! This JUST HAPPENED to me today!! The very first villager I ever met, a dog called Mac (all he talks about is working out), is moving. I switched the game on and Isabelle did her usual morning announcements, and announced he was leaving today. I spoke to Mac and he said "I took your advice and I'm moving out". But I NEVER TOLD HIM TO MOVE!! Never once. I played the game all day yesterday and he never even spoke to me about moving, not once. I would never let my first ever islander that I spoke to move out, I would never agree to that, and surely I would remember if I had?? I can't understand it. It HAS to be a glitch. I'm devastated and extremely angry about this. I DID NOT TEL HIM TO MOVE.
Is it possible he had the thought bubble and I didn't see it, and because I didn't engage in conversation with him, he just decided to move out? That's the only explanation I can think of. I can't believe this. He was the first villager I ever spoke to. Is it possible for villagers/islanders who move out to eventually move back in through selling land plots, if enough people move out and enough plots become available? Or can a villager never move back once they've moved out? Please someone help me!!
Can I go back in time somehow? Can I stop this??
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Is it possible he had the thought bubble and I didn't see it, and because I didn't engage in conversation with him, he just decided to move out? That's the only explanation I can think of. I can't believe this. He was the first villager I ever spoke to. Is it possible for villagers/islanders who move out to eventually move back in through selling land plots, if enough people move out and enough plots become available? Or can a villager never move back once they've moved out? Please someone help me!!
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WaileaNoRei
Once and forever
in New Horizons villagers do not move out without permission. If he moves out he won’t move to another plot on your island and that’s not a mechanic for triggering a move out. Ignoring the thought bubble does not cause the villager to move out. And once they are moved out, no, they don’t move back. You may encounter the same villager island hopping (through random chance, but it won’t be your same Mac - he won’t remember you, etc)
your situation he is acting at least like someone told him he could move, but regardless, if he is in boxes and not just gone that is better in because you may be able to get him to stay. Do you have any secondary playable characters on your island? If not, maybe you could make one. I believe another resident can ask a moving villager to stay and they will stay. Your original character can’t ask Mac to stay if the game is acting like you agreed to let him leave, but a different character would get the option to ask him to stay.
Another, more complicated solution would be that a friend could come, invite him to their island, then once they get him to ask to move out (either by waiting it out, time traveling or using amiibo cards/ a campsite villager move in) from there you could invite him back to your island.
the one thing about a secondary character is I would want to make sure it won’t mess with the in game time and cause Mac to move out prematurely. Maybe someone else has a little more information on that.
in the meantime, just make sure you stay on the day he is in boxes so that he is not gone gone
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I know from experience that villagers will not move out unless they ask and you say yes. I have time traveled years ahead in this game and I've never had a villager move out without my approval.
If he just randomly moved out, without you saying yes to his request to move, then it is likely that he was a glitched villager and he was patched out with a recent update.
Yeah since posting that question I've more or less found this myself also.
At the time I was just a little surprised because it's never been like that in a game before (and I didn't TT so I wasn't able to confirm for myself).
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