Jinglefruit
The black-nosed Reindeer
This isn't directly related to the game itself, but is more of a general question about playing it. Approximately 1 month after New Leaf's release, I will be unable to play the game for a three week period. Should I just wait until after that to play NL? I don't want to end up with hundreds of weeds and my villagers gone :X
ARE YOU CRAZY!? Of course you should play it as soon as possible.
Villagers -if it's like past games- will only move out 1 at a time. So if the last day you play someone moves out (and leaves you with 8 villagers) no one else will during the gap. And if that's not likely to happen make sure you talk to all your villagers a fair bit a few days beforehand to try to find out who will try to move next and tell them to stay.
You might end up with a few weeds, but switching to a beautiful town ordinance will damage limitate that a bit. And they're easy to deal with anyway. (and if you fill your town with flowers and paths and stuff there won't be many places they can even grow)
In general, if you don't play for a long time, time effectively stops in the game. (outside of weeds and stuff that can change over one night normally, and your villagers might mention it the next time you speak to them.)