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[P.K.]

I have a question about moving villagers, but I haven't seen a clear answer...

I know it is very possible for a villager to move without warning/pinging you about it first. This has happened to four of my friends as well as myself, but luckily for me, the villager who moved out was one that I did not interact with much at the time. However, I was never notified that he was going to move. Villagers I spoke to regularly never dropped hints that he was thinking about leaving and he never pinged me himself, even when I passed by. The only notification I ever got was when I booted up the game and Isabelle told me he was leaving.

What are the possible causes for this to occur, and is it preventable?

When you have 9 or 10 villagers, you're in the "Moving Out" period where villagers will ask you about moving out. When you don't talk to a villager for a week or more (may it be tt-ing or ignoring), they won't approach you until you approach them first which can result in unexpected move outs. But if you talk to them which triggers the "I haven't seen you for so long!" dialogue, just stay out of their site for a while or save & quit and they'll ping you.
I use this technique when I tt so I know which is the "moving villager" to prevent any villager I like from moving out.
But this is simply speaking from my observations and personal experience.

 

[Electricbluewolf]

I was wondering if anyone could answer my query here.

I stopped playing in end of Decemberish, and when I started playing (only since last week) and I noticed I had left the date sometime in the future-I promptly put it back to the right date and checked my mail. I had a letter from Eugene saying how he was going to miss me but he hopes his new town will be cool. So I thought okay he's gone-but he's still here, I received his leaving letter but he didn't actually leave. Anyone can explain?
Another thing is do they always write you letters to tell you their leaving? I had Pate move in, only spoke to him once, TT'd and then realised he had moved, but I didn't get a letter (the box was empty as well)

I've been looking around to see wethr this question was answered and couldn't find anything, so here goes...


Can I get villagers to move out if my town is not even full yet? :/ I've tried with a TT method I found on the gamefaqs forums and I've not encountered one person who wants to move out albeit me save/quitting several times and I begin to assume it might be because I only have nine people in my town so far...

I shall answer with personal experience-I had a full village and TT'd a year, one dog left, did it again, another animal left, did it for a few days at a time and they kept on leaving-overall I had 4 leave my village, and only one animal came back after 2 days. However, TT'd every 2 days and got a villager every time I did. So I guess if you do it by years villagers do leave, but then there's the risk of not controlling it much.

 

[IndiaHawker]

Is it against the rules to give someone a WiFi rating twice for the same visit? I did it by accident once before and panicked and deleted the second, haha. Also what if you give someone two WiFi ratings for completely different things (eg once they sold you flowers, a few weeks later they sold you items, etc)? Thanks!

 

[Swizzle]

When you have 9 or 10 villagers, you're in the "Moving Out" period where villagers will ask you about moving out. When you don't talk to a villager for a week or more (may it be tt-ing or ignoring), they won't approach you until you approach them first which can result in unexpected move outs. But if you talk to them which triggers the "I haven't seen you for so long!" dialogue, just stay out of their site for a while or save & quit and they'll ping you.
I use this technique when I tt so I know which is the "moving villager" to prevent any villager I like from moving out.
But this is simply speaking from my observations and personal experience.

Thank you very much for your input! I do have 9 villagers right now and I did ignore that villager when this happened to me. I'll be cautious in the future and will pass this along to my affected friends and see if it was possible that they "ignored" the villagers of theirs that moved.

 

[nammie]

Regarding the town tree, does time travelling backwards make it shrink? i.e. if I time travelled like 300 days into the future and then back, would it still be the size of the 300 day tree, or would it shrink back to what it was before? assuming I already have the 300 hours playtime needed as well.

 

[IndiaHawker]

To get the final store expansion, can you pass Gracie's fashion checks in other people's towns? Or does it have to be in your own?

 

[Xanarcah]

Regarding the town tree, does time travelling backwards make it shrink? i.e. if I time travelled like 300 days into the future and then back, would it still be the size of the 300 day tree, or would it shrink back to what it was before? assuming I already have the 300 hours playtime needed as well.

It will stay the same.

It appears to grow based on how much your town has progressed, not by how long you've been playing. Getting new Main Street stores, that kind of thing.

 

[vodkasmizmar]

To get the final store expansion, can you pass Gracie's fashion checks in other people's towns? Or does it have to be in your own?

Only in your own town.

 

[Ettienne]

To get the final store expansion, can you pass Gracie's fashion checks in other people's towns? Or does it have to be in your own?

It has to be your own. The fastest way I've seen to do this is to make another character and pass her fashion checks with all four in one go.

 

[mogyay]

how many flowers do people breed to get new hybrids? obviously it's kind of stupid do use tons but i was wondering if there was kind of an optimum number or something?

 

[Saturniidae]

does anyone know how many public works projects a villager can request in a day. Like if they ping you for a project...later that they can another villager ping you for another project?

 

[Ras]

I've heard it's possible, but exceedingly rare. I've never had more than one PWP request a day.

 

[Chibi.Hoshi]

does anyone know how many public works projects a villager can request in a day. Like if they ping you for a project...later that they can another villager ping you for another project?

I've heard its 5. But I am not sure. I once got 2 a day but that's about it as far as I know.

 

[nammie]

Where do you get the museum model when you complete the museum? I thought Blathers would give/mail it to me but apparently not... do you have to wait for it to show up in the gift shop and buy it there??

 

[vodkasmizmar]

Where do you get the museum model when you complete the museum? I thought Blathers would give/mail it to me but apparently not... do you have to wait for it to show up in the gift shop and buy it there??

Yep! It's a random item that will occasionally show up at the museum gift shop. Sometimes it takes WEEKS before you see it

 

[nammie]

ahh ok, that sucks lol
you'd think that for completing the museum blathers would hand SOMETHING to you, but nope you still have to buy the model?? sigh

 

[nammie]

Another question lol, is it possible to time travel a huge period of time without losing any villagers? and by huge I mean like a year (I can't stand some of the grass wear in my town ugh). I heard if you TT after a villager asks to move, then no one will move even if you TT a year...? Is this true? Do you have to let the villager move for this to work?

 

[Xanarcah]

Another question lol, is it possible to time travel a huge period of time without losing any villagers? and by huge I mean like a year (I can't stand some of the grass wear in my town ugh). I heard if you TT after a villager asks to move, then no one will move even if you TT a year...? Is this true? Do you have to let the villager move for this to work?

This is true. If a villager asks to move and you say no, you can jump from that day to anywhere in the future and no one will move. I made a 40-ish year jump a few times and no one left me.

 

[nammie]

omg ok great!!! time to wait for someone to ping me so I can jump to 2015 lol.....

 

[davidxrawr]

So a villager wants to move in a few days but I want to time travel a few days backward to todays current date. Will he still move out if I do that?