Lorelei: I understand your plight completely! I had put down paths beautifully. Spent so much time making and modifying them (still modifying to break some of the obvious pattern repeats) and then Phoebe moved in... Right in the middle of my path on top of bushes and trees... Death, then! not less than 2 days later Diva moved in adjacent to her taking out another spot of bushes and trees.... oh my life u_u'.....
So after all of that disappointment and multiple rounds of cycling, I was able to get them out!!! Thank goodness! It takes a bit, but you just have to figure out if you're in a move in period or a move out period. I think the move in period occurs over a maximum of 9 days and ends once someone moves in. Then the move out period begins and usually gives you 4-6 days, six is very very tricky so start at 4, to figure out who is going to ping. Once you deny, the move out cycle starts again and will not change to move in until someone moves out.
You also have to talk to the new animal and be on speaking terms with all of your other animals to figure out who is going to ping.
OH!!! The last animal will not move until someone else moves in!
Hope that helped.
Don't know if this will help, but I know a trick to getting pings, You get a wetsuit, and swim into the ocean. (Or net glitch in) Then, you go to one of the lower corners, and stay there for at least five minutes, with a maximum of 15. I did it for more than 15, and got no pings. Do NOT close the DS or put it in sleep mode. Once you come out, your villagers will have pings for many different things. I'm not sure if this will make them ping for moving, but it doesn't hurt to try!
Ugh, I plot reset for this very reason.
Before I knew how to do it (when I first started my first town), both Quillson AND Knox parked
RIGHT IN FRONT OF TOWN HALL. Like, as if they were self-claimed guards or something ~.~
We're mayors with very little power, I swear.
People who call us plot-resetters "cheaters" must have not had this kind of hassle/pain lol.
I started my new town 6 months ago and Grizzly moved in right front the river when I planned to build a bridge ! He moved out yesterday, I'm so happy I'll be finaly able to build it ! I understand how frustrated you must be ):
When you expect new person to come in go check with a alternate character if you do not like it do not save with that character and reset game I believe you can keep doing this.
Oh, Muffy ruined my lychee forest and because I wanted her to move out ASAP, my favorite villager, Rodney moved away. I literally wanted to go all GTA on her, as in beating her up, and setting fire to her house. I also sent her extremely mean letters. As in some of the most vulgar things you can say in ACNL.
Lucky moved in the middle of my little perfect cherry 'orchard' next to Re-Tail, but I forgave him because he's adorable -- then I stopped playing for almost a year and he moved out, boo. I replanted my trees but forgot to put a PWP in the middle of them and ANOTHER villager moved in; it was Zucker this time, which made me imagine lazy villagers liked the spot because they were surrounded by perfect fruit, haha. He's still there because I like his takoyaki-ness (takoyaki is so good...).
There are a few other instances of villagers moving into some crappy spots, but I don't mind too much if it's a dreamie. I can't plot reset because I use all of my character slots, but a new villager plot that I want to keep gets me to change up my town every so often which keeps things interesting. It's not so bad.
I know how you feel. Flip moved right in front of my house and blocked the view of my house. I was mad but it's whatever. He moved out today so I'm happy. Teddy is moving in and hoping that he will choice a great spot for his house.
villagers kept moving in right behind my house and ruining my nice view of some trees I had been trying to plant so eventually I put a public work project there- and then Boomer moves in RIGHT NEXT DOOR and plants himself right in the middle of the orange roses I was cultivating! If he wasn't a penguin I would have burned his house down. (ps I love penguins so I'll take Flo off your hands if you manage to get her to move away haha)
Ed put himself right in the middle of my path leading to the lighthouse but that was out of the way and hes moving tomorrow so I'll fic it.