What's the longest stretch you've done campsite method?

[Grom]

Please share your longest campsite runs in real time - interested in seeing how many hours/days/weeks of your actual life...

and who or what personality you were hunting

and whether or not you were successful

hoping there's hope

 

[Firesquids]

I usually just go island hopping or look for someone selling the villager I want instead, I have terrible luck with the campers.

 

[Grom]

I hear you. I don't trade but have crazy stacks of NMT but looking for the personality my island doesn't have... and thinking campsite might be speedier

 

[Jam86]

i was looking for judy because i couldn't afford her lol (i like looking for my own villagers anyway)

and it took me less than a day to find her but i time travelled like 3 years ahead

i looked for raymond through the campsite too but found him on first try so it's random

 

[Grom]

Your Judy search gives me hope- but that's crazy about your first try Raymond

 

[Jam86]

Your Judy search gives me hope- but that's crazy about your first try Raymond

i was actually really surprised myself when i found him haha
but i'm glad i did, i wasn't about to spend all my bells on him

good luck on ur search ^-^

 

[Holla]

I never even bothered to do the campsite method even once. I also don't time travel so it'd be a slow process anyways.

By some miracle though while I was trying to get my final dreamie he magically showed up by pure luck/chance in my campsite. Blew my mind haha.

 

[John Wick]

I TT'd two in game years for Raymond. (About 8 hours real time.)

I had a few smug amiibo cards, and had already had six smug villagers come and go.

I amiibo'd out my only smug - Shep, as the game rolls for personality first, then species, (on NM islands it rolls for species first) then started the whole process.

I even kept the logs.

 

[Firesquids]

i was looking for judy because i couldn't afford her lol (i like looking for my own villagers anyway)

and it took me less than a day to find her but i time travelled like 3 years ahead

i looked for raymond through the campsite too but found him on first try so it's random

when I was looking for Judy I hopped like 200 islands and one of the DIYs I found in a bottle was written from her I got so mad about it lol

 

[Jam86]

when I was looking for Judy I hopped like 200 islands and one of the DIYs I found in a bottle was written from her I got so mad about it lol

that happens to me almost everytime i go island hopping for someone lol

 

[Grom]

I TT'd two in game years for Raymond. (About 8 hours real time.)

I had a few smug amiibo cards, and had already had six smug villagers come and go.

I amiibo'd out my only smug - Shep, as the game rolls for personality first, then species, (on NM islands it rolls for species first) then started the whole process.

I even kept the logs.

this is the way

 

[MikkiC306]

2 weeks. I did nothing in game but TT'd trying to find Dobie, Sheldon, Erik and a few others for 2 other nintendos (my daughters & sons). I have none of my original villagers, received two from him (just got Dobie last night!) and found the others I have through the campsite. Never any luck with islands, though I keep trying. It was a lot of hours. I was out of work for 6 months because of covid and our daycare so I spent all of my free time in game. Still searching. I have 186 villagers to cycle through the campsite before I have finally been through them all. Got a thousand dollars that all the villagers I've been searching for will be the last to show up! I only do it occasionally now, when inspiration on my island won't come.

My situation is unique as I am searching for dreamies from one nintendo for 3 islands. At first I was able to remove the personality I was searching for but as I have found my dreamies that has been thrown out the window.

 

[TheSillyPuppy]

I had to reset for three hours to finally convince Flora to move in and kick out someone I was ready to move out. Last week, it took me two hours to convince Bob.

 

[dizzy bone]

I never tried the campsite method because my island was full before I could! But I tried for Cyd for around 6 hours by mystery island hopping (spread across 2 days) and I never found him. I ended up getting him through a giveaway. If I ever do try the campsite method in the future, I would "give up" much earlier than the hours I tried for Cyd. After years of plot resetting in NL, I no longer have the patience to reset/grind in this game and I'm glad I haven't done much of it.

 

[AngelKitty]

I spent 3 real-life weeks at about 8 hours a day resetting the campsite to get all 10 of my villagers on my island. I lost count of the total hours but I almost made it through the whole villager list before I got them all. Really hoping I never need to do that again.

 

[Rosch]

I only did it three times last year.

Attempt 1 - April 24, 2020
I was looking for Elvis. Got him as my 64th camper. This was my longest run because I had to move in and move out a lot of villagers that I am completely okay with in case I don't find him. Inviting him was really quick though.

Attempt 2 - April 26, 2020
I wasn't looking for anyone in particular. But I thought I'd try to get Raymond. Stopped trying after 18 tries.

Attempt 3 - April 27, 2020
Still wasn't looking for someone specific. But Raymond would be nice. Stopped after 21 campers.

Got Raymond from island hopping last week though (243rd ticket).

 

[VexTheHex]

My forced camper was Henry which was awesome. After that? They all been pretty awful or mediocre at best. To be fair, I did have Erik... who lives on like my only friend who plays this game's island. So it was still a failure.

Not sure whether I'm lucky to not have to try it or unlucky I get duds like Marcie.

 

[moon_child]

About 1-2 hours since I’m not looking for anyone in particular, just wanted anyone from my relatively inclusive list of villagers I want to experience living with. I heard that campers don’t repeat (unlike in island hopping) unless everyone’s had a turn. I’m not sure if that’s true though so to be on the safe side I invite whoever shows up first among my list.

 

[DarkSlayer1331]

I haven't had a Smug villager in I don't know how long. And what is really frustrating is the fact that I haven't had a Smug camper in just as long. Apparently I have a really crappy RNG for the campsite. >.>

 

[Tiffany]

I haven't really don't much villager hunting honestly, it seems to take forever to get rid of the ones I don't want. And once I do island hopping gets old fast so I tend to give up pretty quick(which results in me getting a voided villager). And for me at least I tend to get repeat villagers if I island hop for a while(one time I got the same one 3 times) which gets on my nerves. Also I get Octavian every freakin time and I don't know why. The campsite method is an exercise is aggravation and I don't have much patience for it. My forced camper was Colton and he was the worst. I had Sly in my campsite but I couldn't get him to pick Colton and I gave up. Next camper was Ellie and thankfully she did pick Colton. So my next camper I expected would be smug because that was the only personality i was missing and I was right. What I didn't expect was that it was Raymond! I got lucky there. I also found one dreamy, Molly, while island hopping. And I got Stitches for free on here. My one island hopping regret was not taking Bettina the mouse. I was looking for specific villagers so I didn't invite her to move in and I really wish I had. If I find her again I will. I am also hoping to find Shep one of these days.