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[Diableos]

I have a few questions about voided villagers/trading.

Firstly, if I visit someone's town to ask a villager to move into mine, but that person also had a villager in the void, would the villager I asked effectively have priority and move in as opposed to the voided one? Or would it be a 50/50 chance?

Secondly, if I have a villager in the void and visit a town that has 10 villagers, would that definitely clear my void? So if I were to do some villager trading with someone from a town with 9 villagers, I wouldn't pass on my voided villager?

Finally, if I visited a town with 10 villagers to clear my void, but that person had one in the void as well, and then I went to another town to ask a villager to move in... once again, would the villager I asked have priority, or would it be the voided one because technically it was first?

I apologise if my questions are hard to understand!

 

[Snow]

The most recent invite always takes precedence. So if you've picked up a voided villager but you invite someone before they put down a plot, the pick-up will be dropped in favor of the invited villager. If you invite two villagers, the 2nd will move in and the first will get dropped.

As far as going to a town with 10 -- it has always worked for my friends and I.

 

[Diableos]

The most recent invite always takes precedence. So if you've picked up a voided villager but you invite someone before they put down a plot, the pick-up will be dropped in favor of the invited villager. If you invite two villagers, the 2nd will move in and the first will get dropped.

As far as going to a town with 10 -- it has always worked for my friends and I.

Ah, thank you! That's exactly what I wanted to hear. Thank you so much, again! For answering a lot of my questions lately.

So basically if I go to a town with 10, it will clear my void, and even if I pick up a voided villager, they won't move in as long as I invite one before the voided plot goes down. That's good news!

 

[Sidewalk]

Thank you boidoh , snow.

 

[saramew]

This is probably on this thread already, but there are so many pages! ;v; I thought I cycled 16 villagers out for Francine, but she's still on my main street today. Do they always leave main street after the 16 cycle, or do they sometimes still show up? I'd like to take her back in my town ASAP, so does this mean I have to boot out a few more villagers?

 

[Ras]

I have three normals because I want three normals but the game doesn't want me to have three normals. Since I took Lolly in, Skye and Fauna have both asked to move twice. I know the game wants to balance things a little, and I do not have an uchi at all. What I want to know is, are those three the only ones who will ask to move until the number of normals is reduced? I know some people believe you should let them go when they want to go, but I've had Skye less than 20 days and that's just not what I want to do. If it's mostly random and weighted towards balancing things, I'll just have to wait until it's a villager I'm more willing to see gone.

 

[JellyBeans]

I have three normals because I want three normals but the game doesn't want me to have three normals. Since I took Lolly in, Skye and Fauna have both asked to move twice. I know the game wants to balance things a little, and I do not have an uchi at all. What I want to know is, are those three the only ones who will ask to move until the number of normals is reduced? I know some people believe you should let them go when they want to go, but I've had Skye less than 20 days and that's just not what I want to do. If it's mostly random and weighted towards balancing things, I'll just have to wait until it's a villager I'm more willing to see gone.

It's random. Eventually someone else will ask to move out

This is probably on this thread already, but there are so many pages! ;v; I thought I cycled 16 villagers out for Francine, but she's still on my main street today. Do they always leave main street after the 16 cycle, or do they sometimes still show up? I'd like to take her back in my town ASAP, so does this mean I have to boot out a few more villagers?

You have to boot out a few more villagers :3 They disappear from Main Street when you have cycled 16 as they are no longer on the games memory.

 

[juneau]

I got the perfect town rating yesterday, and kept it up for a few (in game) days. I TT one day at a time always, and probably played ahead about five days today, through all of which I kept the rating, then all of a sudden, my town becomes "so-so" when I talk to Isabelle. Apparently people say I need more PWPs, even though I got the rating with 11 PWPs and haven't knocked down any since. Does TTing mess with the rating somehow? I can't think of anything I changed that would have lowered my rating, no chopping down trees, I have new hybrids growing every day and no trash on the floor.

 

[Sour of Abnaxus]

I got the perfect town rating yesterday, and kept it up for a few (in game) days. I TT one day at a time always, and probably played ahead about five days today, through all of which I kept the rating, then all of a sudden, my town becomes "so-so" when I talk to Isabelle. Apparently people say I need more PWPs, even though I got the rating with 11 PWPs and haven't knocked down any since. Does TTing mess with the rating somehow? I can't think of anything I changed that would have lowered my rating, no chopping down trees, I have new hybrids growing every day and no trash on the floor.

Do you have the same amount of villagers as when you achieved perfect town status? Apparently villager houses count as PWPs in this regard.

 

[Sleepy]

I keep hearing about save data corruption in AC:NL, and honestly, I'm paranoid to play my game now. I'm 200+ hours in, and I've invested a LOT in my game.

How common is save data corruption on a physical copy? What can I do, because at this point I'm afraid to play and that should not be the case...

 

[janedoe]

I have a question about the HHA theme challenges (if this has been answered before, which it probably has, I'm sorry >.<)
It says that the main floor rooms and the upstairs counts toward the theme points, but says that the basement doesn't count. Does that mean it doesn't count toward any points at all? If I had a full Gorgeous series or a full Nintendo set collection, would I not get any points? Thanks

 

[juneau]

Do you have the same amount of villagers as when you achieved perfect town status? Apparently villager houses count as PWPs in this regard.

That must be it, I had a villager move out that day, darn. Thanks!

 

[Ras]

Okay, so Phoebe was my sixth villager, so I knew the next two would be either a smug or a lazy. The next one was due to lay down his plot tomorrow, so I timetraveled to tomorrow morning and did the reset trick three times and got Drago. Saved. Timetraveled back to the current date, and his house is up and he's still in boxes, moving in. My question is, will my next villager put down a plot tomorrow morning since Drago's house is already up, or will they keep to the original schedule and put down a plot the next day? I'm really wanting to control who my smug is so I can give him to a friend, so I don't want to mess this up.

While I'm at it, is it absolutely crucial that I start the game and save as my mayor at 5:58am before I create a new character? Why is it important to save as mayor? If I save and quit as my mayor right now and then TT to 6am tomorrow and go in as a new character, isn't that good enough? When I controlled Phoebe's arrival, I didn't time travel at all. I just started the game for the first time that day as a new character and made sure the villager was acceptable.

 

[Snow]

Okay, so Phoebe was my sixth villager, so I knew the next two would be either a smug or a lazy. The next one was due to lay down his plot tomorrow, so I timetraveled to tomorrow morning and did the reset trick three times and got Drago. Saved. Timetraveled back to the current date, and his house is up and he's still in boxes, moving in. My question is, will my next villager put down a plot tomorrow morning since Drago's house is already up, or will they keep to the original schedule and put down a plot the next day? I'm really wanting to control who my smug is so I can give him to a friend, so I don't want to mess this up.

You've added a day by going backwards, so the original schedule is tossed. To be careful definitely reset tomorrow.

While I'm at it, is it absolutely crucial that I start the game and save as my mayor at 5:58am before I create a new character? Why is it important to save as mayor? If I save and quit as my mayor right now and then TT to 6am tomorrow and go in as a new character, isn't that good enough? When I controlled Phoebe's arrival, I didn't time travel at all. I just started the game for the first time that day as a new character and made sure the villager was acceptable.

No, I've never done that. The reason for tting as your mayor is to avoid using the DS settings. If you use the DS settings to tt go in as the new character (also, if you are actually in the next real day as you did with Phoebe - I usually reset the next actual day and don't tt). If you need to tt forward and you want to use the game settings only, THEN you need to go in as mayor, reset the time to a little before 6 am, quit, wait a few minutes and then go in with the new character.

 

[Ras]

I looked around to make sure and no new plots today (still on real time). I'm planning to change the time on the DS in a few minutes to once again be Sunday morning, 6am, new character. Is that an okay idea, or should I just wait until it really is tomorrow to do this?

Edit: so that does bring up an interesting question for me. When people are talking about changing the time when they are cycling or whatever, they mean they are having Isabelle change the time? I always thought you had to drop down to DS settings and do it there.

 

[Snow]

I looked around to make sure and no new plots today (still on real time). I'm planning to change the time on the DS in a few minutes to once again be Sunday morning, 6am, new character. Is that an okay idea, or should I just wait until it really is tomorrow to do this?

You can do it on the DS, and no reason it has to be 6 am, it just has to be after 6 am.

Edit: so that does bring up an interesting question for me. When people are talking about changing the time when they are cycling or whatever, they mean they are having Isabelle change the time? I always thought you had to drop down to DS settings and do it there.

You can do either, everyone has their personal preference. The possible drawback of changing the DS time is forgetting to fix it and messing up another game.

 

[Danni_Castelia]

One of my villagers, Cousteau, is moving out on December 24th.... That's Toy Day... So do I still give him his present or does it not work?

 

[Ras]

Okay, I got my eighth villager. Now, one last question. I feel stupid, because I probably asked this when starting my last town. No, because I asked a ninth villager to move in there from another town!

So, question time: is the ninth villager a random move-in, or is that one you have to get through wifi, streetpass, etc.? If it's random, will it be the day after my eighth has moved in (his house is already full of boxes, thanks to traveling back to the present)?

 

[JellyBeans]

Okay, I got my eighth villager. Now, one last question. I feel stupid, because I probably asked this when starting my last town. No, because I asked a ninth villager to move in there from another town!

So, question time: is the ninth villager a random move-in, or is that one you have to get through wifi, streetpass, etc.? If it's random, will it be the day after my eighth has moved in (his house is already full of boxes, thanks to traveling back to the present)?

9th villager is random move-in. I believe their plot is placed either the day the 8th villager is up and walking around town, or the day after the villager is up and walking around.

 

[Ras]

What the hell? I'm trying the random move-in villager reset trick for a ninth villager, and the first three times, it worked fine. Didn't want the ppl, so I reset. Now, five resets later, there hasn't been another plot. I even took a risk and jumped ahead a day, no plot. Is that normal?

Edit: now make that six. I know the minute I load up as mayor the plot will be there and it'll be Harry or someone else very much like him.

Edit again: okay, now there's a plot. I never heard of Bangle. Buuuut, I don't need two peppy tigers.