What (in your opinion) is the best way to move villagers out?

[mynameismew]

There are so, so many theories out there and I just wanted to know what you think is the best way? There are couple of villagers that I want OUT. Like Shari. She plopped her house in the alleyway of my town and all over my perfect apples and cedar saplings. Thanks Shari. No wonder there's a HA in your name, because you're a joke.


So, in your opinion, is the best way of moving villagers out quickly and to definitely get the ones you want out.


thank you!!

 

[LoonieToonies]

Ok, the method I use is as follows:

1. Time travel day by day until one of your villagers ping. If it's the villager you want to move out, yay! If not, keep reading.
2. Tell the villager you want them to stay, then save and quit.
3. Time travel six days forward, load your game, save and quit and travel another six days back to the original date.
4. Another one of your villagers will ping you.
5. Rinse and repeat!

This method tricks the game into thinking a week has passed without giving you bed head and making your villagers worry and wonder where you are. It works for me every time! Good luck

 

[J e s s i c a]

Tips i have picked out...

- Once they stop giving you tutorials (they will mention about saving so that is when you know they have stopped)and ask you to do favors people will start moving out

- You have to be the Mayor first

- You have to start talking to the villagers more, building a friend ship because the more friends you are with a villager the more likely they will ask the move out!

Hope that helped ~ (people say you need to unlock the island before anyone moves out, lies! I don't have it and people are moving out still)

 

[mynameismew]

Thanks for the tips, Jessica, and I'll be sure to check out your method in a moment, LooniesToonies! (nice name)

 

[Arabelle]

Ok, the method I use is as follows:

1. Time travel day by day until one of your villagers ping. If it's the villager you want to move out, yay! If not, keep reading.
2. Tell the villager you want them to stay, then save and quit.
3. Time travel six days forward, load your game, save and quit and travel another six days back to the original date.
4. Another one of your villagers will ping you.
5. Rinse and repeat!

This method tricks the game into thinking a week has passed without giving you bed head and making your villagers worry and wonder where you are. It works for me every time! Good luck

I just wanted to confirm that this method works. I used it before I achieved all my dreamies. C: I was gonna post it, then saw someone already did haha

 

[mynameismew]

Really? Sounds amazing then <3

I'm currently trying it out now, but I've been plunged into the exiting period so I need to wait a few days before people even think about moving out!

 

[mynameismew]

what happens when the villager you want decides to move? do you go to the date they're moving, move them out, and start at your original date?

 

[kasane]

what happens when the villager you want decides to move? do you go to the date they're moving, move them out, and start at your original date?

As long as you tell them that it's fine to move (and they don't change their mind about it) you can TT to their boxing date if you want them out ASAP or let real days go by

 

[Hypno KK]

The method I use is this: start by playing with your villager until a villager (any villager) pings you to move. Say no, save your game, and set the 3DS date (and your game's if they're different) to the Monday of a week with no events in it. Load the game on that date and save and quit. Go to your 3DS settings and change only the year to one year later. Start as a new character and when you get the map for the first time, don't go to the town hall, just check on the map which villager is missing. Quit without saving and set the year back again. Load as your mayor and go find the missing character. If they don't ping you immediately, talk to them a few times, save and quit, and load the game again. Keep talking to them and saving and quitting until they ping you or talk about moving.

If it's a villager you want to keep, tell them to stay, then save and quit. Set your 3DS forward by one year again and this time load as your mayor. Since you denied a request to move, nobody will have moved out so it's safe. Immediately save and quit. Set the 3DS date forward by another year and use a new character to check on your town. Set it back by one year again (so it's on the date you last loaded your mayor) and use them to stop that character from moving as described before.

Keep doing that until it's someone you want to move out. When that's the case, pay attention to the date they've told you and tell them to move, then save and quit. You can now safely set your date back to normal. Since going back any amount of time counts as one day forward, that villager will now be moving one day earlier (so if they were moving in 5 days, they'll now move out in 4).

Just keep in mind that you'll get bed hair and some weeds with this method but it's not that bad. You should always have Beautiful Town enabled if you don't want your flowers to die. I really like this method because unless you accidentally start as an existing character when you're supposed to start with a new one, it's safe, and since it uses longer intervals and doesn't rely on moving gossip, you'll always know which villager is moving out and it's quicker.

 

[ellienoise]

The method I use is this: start by playing with your villager until a villager (any villager) pings you to move. Say no, save your game, and set the 3DS date (and your game's if they're different) to the Monday of a week with no events in it. Load the game on that date and save and quit. Go to your 3DS settings and change only the year to one year later. Start as a new character and when you get the map for the first time, don't go to the town hall, just check on the map which villager is missing. Quit without saving and set the year back again. Load as your mayor and go find the missing character. If they don't ping you immediately, talk to them a few times, save and quit, and load the game again. Keep talking to them and saving and quitting until they ping you or talk about moving.

If it's a villager you want to keep, tell them to stay, then save and quit. Set your 3DS forward by one year again and this time load as your mayor. Since you denied a request to move, nobody will have moved out so it's safe. Immediately save and quit. Set the 3DS date forward by another year and use a new character to check on your town. Set it back by one year again (so it's on the date you last loaded your mayor) and use them to stop that character from moving as described before.

Keep doing that until it's someone you want to move out. When that's the case, pay attention to the date they've told you and tell them to move, then save and quit. You can now safely set your date back to normal. Since going back any amount of time counts as one day forward, that villager will now be moving one day earlier (so if they were moving in 5 days, they'll now move out in 4).

Just keep in mind that you'll get bed hair and some weeds with this method but it's not that bad. You should always have Beautiful Town enabled if you don't want your flowers to die. I really like this method because unless you accidentally start as an existing character when you're supposed to start with a new one, it's safe, and since it uses longer intervals and doesn't rely on moving gossip, you'll always know which villager is moving out and it's quicker.

I was looking for this method last night and I couldn't find it anywhere! I'll copy it and save it on my notes
One question, though; do you know if it works with shorter intervals of time? Like, insted of a year a month or something?

 

[00ToxicLove00]

What works for me is talk to that villager once then time travel.

 

[RebeccaShay]

If you're looking to get a specific villager out:
Get someone to ping.
TT 6 days (No more)
Garunteed ping from someone asking to move (ONLY WORKS IF YOUVE TALKED TO THEM PRIOR TO TTIng)
Repeat.

Cycling EVERYONE out:
The day someone is in boxes TT one year
Start our mayor, save and quit
TT another year
Start mayor, save and quit
TT FIVE days
Start mayor, someone will be in boxes.
Please note that this DOES give you weeds even with the beautiful town ordinance
You will also get a new villager everytime someone moves out. (Every cycle)

This is what I do when I'm in my cycle town and have never ran into any problems while doing so