What do?

[Le Ham]

Today is Stinky's second time camping in my town. This is after days of the campsite being empty. The poor thing wants to stay in my town, and I'm considering letting him. He's got a nice appeal and character, and I'm cool with having two Jocks since him and Mott (my current Jock) still seem different from each other.

Problem is, I already have two Snooties, two Normals, and zero Crankies. I want a Cranky and need a Cranky, and my town currently stands at 9 villagers, but now I'm letting this derp take the last slot.

If I let him in, I'm going to have to wait until either Nan or Pancetti decide to move, and then hope that whoever camps next is a Cranky. If not, I'm still going to be waiting until a Cranky camps, which is unreasonable because my campsite tends to select several of the same personality type in a row, and I may be waiting through several more Jocks and/or weeks before either a Cranky finally camps, or another villager moves out and I'm left with whoever plots the next day.

So what'll it be? Do I move him along and wait for a Cranky to show up? Or do I let him in, make one of my extras leave, and THEN wait for a Cranky to show up?

Well I was in a similar situation, I make the mistake of letting Peggy move out, this was 2 years ago in my 1st game, because I believed another character of the same personallity will move in, then Filbert moved in, I was stuck with 2 jocks, 2 lazies and 1 of each of the others except Peppy villager, then i built the campsite in hopes of getting a new peppy but months passed and I always got every other personallity except peppy. Last year finally Freckles appeared and I accepted her to move in. I really wanted the peppy projects, so this was a pain, I couldn't risk letting another one move in because the posibility of a peppy appearing while I was with a full town was always present.

In the end I never got the peppy projects because my whole game got corrupted but that is another story

I let tons of good looking characters go, because a peppy villager was my top priority, what is your priority a cool character or the cranky that you need??

Though my priority is the Cranky, I'm not in a rush or anything, and I'm okay as long as I'm not waiting a year for one. And yes, I am counting on the campsite to not give me Crankies when my town is full. But even if I pass every camper by waiting for a Cranky, I've also got my current villagers to deal with.
Either Nan or Pancetti I'd like gone, and I feel that having 10 will make the process go by faster than being in limbo between 9 and 8. I would also rather have two of a male personality and two of a female, than two of 2 female personalities, since there's 8 personalities and you can have 10 villagers. So getting Stinky or any additional Jock/Lazy/Smug/Cranky is something I want to achieve at some point. It's really a matter of what gets done first, because I'm not in a hurry.

Another factor adding to this is that I'm actually TTing forward, at a rate between day-by-day and every three days. Should a villager decide to unexpectedly move out while I'm doing this, I'm down to 8 and have to plot reset, hoping that I can get it to where
A) it's a Cranky, and
B) they're in a good spot.
But will doing that be faster than waiting for the campsite to cooperate? If I get 10 villagers and boot Nan or Pancetti, I can TT to their moving day once they've pinged, but is getting their ping going to take longer than the campsite giving me a Cranky, WHILE I'm TTing and may miss a potential camping day?

 

[Burigu]

Well I was in a similar situation, I make the mistake of letting Peggy move out, this was 2 years ago in my 1st game, because I believed another character of the same personallity will move in, then Filbert moved in, I was stuck with 2 jocks, 2 lazies and 1 of each of the others except Peppy villager, then i built the campsite in hopes of getting a new peppy but months passed and I always got every other personallity except peppy. Last year finally Freckles appeared and I accepted her to move in. I really wanted the peppy projects, so this was a pain, I couldn't risk letting another one move in because the posibility of a peppy appearing while I was with a full town was always present.

In the end I never got the peppy projects because my whole game got corrupted but that is another story

I let tons of good looking characters go, because a peppy villager was my top priority, what is your priority a cool character or the cranky that you need??

 

[failedexperiment]

hmm... well this is just me but, i'd let him in cause if i don't, i might turn on my game one morning to find someone i never wanted in a million years with their house plot on my roses. unless you're actively using the villager reset trick which is a bother on its own...

 

[Burigu]

hmm... well this is just me but, i'd let him in cause if i don't, i might turn on my game one morning to find someone i never wanted in a million years with their house plot on my roses. unless you're actively using the villager reset trick which is a bother on its own...

That can't happen since there are already 9 villagers in town, the 10th one can only move if invited via campsite

 

[Hypno KK]

Invite him into your town.

You like him and you're planning on moving out Nan and Pancetti (and having an extra villager right now would save you some trouble when they move). I think it would be different if you had 9 dreamies and had to choose your 10th carefully, but since you're planning on moving out other villagers and you're not in a hurry, it's not a big deal. You can always get a Cranky later.

By the way, is there any reason why you can't just adopt a Cranky from someone on here when you have a free spot?

- - - Post Merge - - -

That can't happen since there are already 9 villagers in town, the 10th one can only move if invited via campsite

This is incorrect, there are other ways to get a 10th villager. You can invite them from someone else's town. It can also be picked up from someone's void via wifi or StreetPass, and in that case it's more like a random move-in.