I understand how annoying it is for the villager that you want to be voided by someone. But (and I'm probably going to sound like a jerk) here is how it is from a cycler's perspective:
I don't always cycle. But when I do have my cycling thread open I offer my services for free because my goal is really just to help as many people as I can. And at first I was doing it without voiding any villagers (or at least trying not to) So whenever a villager was in boxes I'd go ahead and make a post announcing their availability and then waited for someone to ask for said villager.
Popular villagers like Beau, Diana, Ankha would be claimed within minutes, sometimes even seconds of me posting that they were in boxes. But less popular villagers would take longer. I'm talking about hours here. Hours of me refreshing the tbt page, posting on tumblr, on reddit, and everywhere I could think of just to wait for someone to claim said villager. It was incredibly frustrating to waste so much time. Seriously, you have no idea how boring it is.
Then I realized something: I don't owe anyone anything. I'm offering my service for free, why should I stress over helping people who aren't even grateful for what I do for them? Seriously, half of the people I give villagers to don't even say thank you. And even less give me wi-fi rating.
So unless someone says "Lurking for _______" or anything along those lines I usually just void the villager I know isn't going to get adopted.
^ Basically, this. So with you there, pocky. No truer words have been spoken.
I'm gonna be sounding like an
even bigger jerk than I already am:
(long whiny venting ahead so be warned and
disclaimer: this is
not directed at the OP, just something in general that I felt after a year of cycling, thanks for your understanding!)
- Last I checked, I am not obligated to cycle for everyone/anyone who happened to be looking for whoever villagers there.
There is this bizarre deep-rooted misconception that if you happened to be a 'cycler' (and I am using this term loosely) then you automatically became public property, and must tend to everyone's demands AND expected to be there online and ready 24/7 so they can grace your thread to do you an immensely huge favor by adopting villagers from your cycling towns. I have seen this happened way too often with some of my friends (thankfully they all stopped cycling for various reasons).
- Most players, myself included, probably have limited time for the game or cycling. I choose not to waste my time sitting around for hours if not days for someone to pick up whatever villagers
that I do not like or care about - be it a Tier 1 or 5.
I auto-void many many villagers, including a LOT of Tier 1s, because I don't like them, and have no intention of adopting them out EVEN IF they are popular and could sell for some decent bells.
I do not, however, auto-void lower tiers because they are lower tiers. I void them because I don't like them. Hey, it's my game, you can do whatever you like with *yours* : you love to adopt out every single villagers for free no matter how long it takes? You don't mind waiting for hours and days for that rude/non-responsive/entitled member to bother to actually come and pick up that villager? Kudos to you, you have my respect and thumbs up.
- People tend to conveniently forget that cyclers need to invest actual time and $$ to provide other players with villagers. I cannot speak for others, but I choose to not cycle for free as a general rule. Why on earth would I wanna do that? I spend rl $ on 3 3DS XL along with 3 ACNL games, and to cycle one villager into boxes, even with the simple and speed cycling method, it usually take about 2.5 mins. A full village would take 25-30 mins to cycle out. All this time spent to get you your desired villager and you expect me to offer all the villagers for free, especially the more popular ones where some people will just 'saved/cloned' them for reselling later? Heck no. I input a good amount of time and I would prefer some sort of payment for it. You dislike paying an adoption fee for your villager? then you can go to the other 51354876933 cycling threads and get yours there.
- As for lurkers/reservations/taking villgers off av: Why would I want to offer any false hopes to lurkers when I know that I won't be bother to wait around? I'd rather stated clearly that no removing of av since I do not do that, so no one would come to an ugly disappointment thinking I would do that if they asked. At least I am not wasting their time when they can lurk in other threads and obtain their villagers elsewhere. Yes I did made some exceptions for several members here, but that's up to my discretion and you are not necessarily entitled to it.
Well, good thing for everyone that I have removed myself from the cycling 'department', and do not need to whine about it anymore lol. As I mentioned in the last post of my (closed) cycling thread, there are no more reasons/excuses/motivations left for me to continue cycling, plus the sad truth that the practice of 'backing up saved files of most if not all villagers for reselling or giving away' is a common sight now (ever wonder how some cyclers always have ALL villagers available? or how come they only sell certain popular villagers?), just like powersaving all DLC and items in ACNL, it seems like it'd be the right time to move onto other games, and wait for the next installment of a new AC.
@Beardo: Pippy is awesome and GL finding her and Agnes and Marcie soon! C:
