Will villagers move out without telling you?

[Skynetz]

Isn't it true that some villagers will move out without telling you?

 

[libby2999]

I had kidcat move without telling me and by the time I got to him he was in boxes and I couldn't revers it.

 

[Arabelle]

Yeah your villagers can move without telling you. But as long as you talk to everyone daily, it shouldn't be hard to miss.. Normally the villager planning to move will ping you, and even if they don't ping you other villagers will give you a hint like 'I think so-and-so is thinking about moving'.. Then you just have to find that villager outside their house and have him/her ping you.

Luckily I haven't had any one move without telling me.

 

[al-tirah]

Sadly, they do that. It happened to me once with Cousteau and it was very annoying. Thought we were friends... That traitor! lol I miss him now.

 

[Kitty2201]

Yeah, that happened to me with Rosie, even though I talked to her the day or 2 before she moved

 

[P.K.]

Yes there have been incidents of that happening. Just make sure you're on speaking terms with all of them and to check for any new pings every 3-5 days or so it depends but that's from personal experience.

 

[Mairen]

Under normal circumstances, as long as you talk to your villagers every day, they should tell you. If someone is wanting to move, they should ping you about it. They reason they might not is if the mover is currently inside, or you got another ping from someone else about something. In that case, you'd have to go try again later that day I think.

 

[Cute]

they might, if you don't happen to play on any of the days between when they decide to move and their actual move day (usually about 3-4 days length) and you don't get the ping. or another instance i can think of is that if you haven't played for a while and then don't talk to them, they won't ping you unless you talk to them first and go through the "where have you been?" dialog.

i think it's also been confirmed that they will not ping you on days where there are events, like fishing tourneys or holidays? but i'm not 100% positive about that! but that might be another way you would miss them telling you.

 

[Cynder drag]

I remember when I had cube living in my town, i loved that kid to death. I would talk to him every day and make sure he was so happy and send him letters with gifts. He gave me a picture of him. Then I had to stop playing for like a week or so for some reason and when I came back he had already moved. That was devastating. DX

 

[RainyInVancouver]

As mentioned in most of the responses above, you need to speak to your villagers on a regular basis. HOWEVER, you also need to give them a chance to ping you. If you speak to them first time you see them on any given day, they will not ping you about moving during the same play session. My personal routine when I play any of my towns, is to just walk around watering flowers, looking for fossils, etc. and make sure any villager who is out and about sees me. I'll go all around the town doing this. If no one pings, then on my second pass around, I'll stop each villager and talk to them. Talk to the villagers who are inside their houses too, as they might tell you someone is thinking of moving.

If someone (inside or out) tells you another is thinking of moving, save/quit and then start again and walk by the potential moving villager to get a ping. They won't ping in the same session when you were told about the move. If you are told about a move during an event day, the potential mover will only ping you the day after the event.

Also, the moving ping isn't necessarily the first ping of the day. Even if some other villager has pinged you for a favour of some kind, a potential mover can still ping you later in the same session.

 

[estypest]

Yup I had this with Willow, I had been so careful and went round my villagers constantly and she never pinged me (I knew she was meant to be moving as another villager told me). It was so frustrating and in the end I just accepted she was off..

 

[Hypno KK]

Yes, they'll move out without telling you. If you talk to your villagers on a regular basis, you vastly improve your chances of being told when someone is moving out because you'll at least hear that so-and-so is thinking about moving. It also helps to walk past your villagers regularly so that they can ping you. When I hear that someone is thinking about moving, I'll find that villager and talk to them. If they're not pinging, I'll save, quit, and reload and that usually does it.

Sometimes it can take a while for them to ping (I once heard about a villager wanting to move and when she pinged me, she said she was moving in 3 days) so just be careful and pay attention to your villagers. If you're time travelling or leaving the game alone for a while, there are things you can do to reduce the risk, like denying someone's request to move before doing that, starting with a new character to check if someone's missing, and time travelling to stop them from moving. I wrote a guide about that and I can link you to it if you'd like.

 

[Keylime]

You have to talk to your villagers when they first move in for them to want to ping you when they want to move.

 

[Skynetz]

I talk to all my villagers when they move in and are in boxes. Even the ones I may not like.

 

[Keylime]

Well, for me this method has generally worked. I haven't had anyone move out without getting some word from them.

 

[snapdragon]

As mentioned in most of the responses above, you need to speak to your villagers on a regular basis. HOWEVER, you also need to give them a chance to ping you. If you speak to them first time you see them on any given day, they will not ping you about moving during the same play session. My personal routine when I play any of my towns, is to just walk around watering flowers, looking for fossils, etc. and make sure any villager who is out and about sees me. I'll go all around the town doing this. If no one pings, then on my second pass around, I'll stop each villager and talk to them. Talk to the villagers who are inside their houses too, as they might tell you someone is thinking of moving.

If someone (inside or out) tells you another is thinking of moving, save/quit and then start again and walk by the potential moving villager to get a ping. They won't ping in the same session when you were told about the move. If you are told about a move during an event day, the potential mover will only ping you the day after the event.

Also, the moving ping isn't necessarily the first ping of the day. Even if some other villager has pinged you for a favour of some kind, a potential mover can still ping you later in the same session.

This is precisely what you need to do! Bella told me that Skye was thinking about moving, however when I walked by her she did not ping. Another villager had pinged just previously essentially canceling out the chance for her to ping. I finished what I was doing, quit and saved, rebooted and then waited for a bit. I made sure to walk by her first and she pinged and asked me about moving. If you're talking with them, they will give you the chance to have some input into their decision c:

 

[spCrossing]

Yes.

It happened to me way too many times.