Game is shuttling villager back & forth between my and daughter's villages!!! HELP PLEASE!!

[RosasMom]

What is going on???? My daughter and I are "friends" in the game and have visited each other's islands several times. My daughter had Quillson on her island and didn't really like him, so when he asked to leave, she let him go. I just started playing myself and had several spots open. Quillson showed up on my island as a new villager, without my invitation. I time traveled to get rid of him because I don't care for him myself. In the meantime, Carrie showed up on my island, and guess where she came from? Also, a past villager from my daughter's island. Both Carrie and Quillson showed up on my island without invitation (Carrie was gone from my daughter's island before I even started playing). They are definitely from her island because they both said they were "from Ramburger" (the name of her island).

So, luckily, I had a villager want to leave my island and I TT'd until Quillson wanted to leave. All good right? Well, today, my daughter had another villager leave and guess who the replacement is? QUILLSON again!!!! What the heck???? Has anyone heard of this happening??? Are we doomed to keep recycling the same villagers over and over and over? Do we have to stop being "friends" in the game? Will that even help?

Insight desperately needed here. Thanks!

 

[kiwikenobi]

This is a normal feature of the game. A moved-out villager waits in a special hidden place until you visit or are visited by someone else, then they get added to a move-in queue in their game. Fans frequently call this the "void" or villagers "being voided" or "moving in from the void." I'm pretty sure the only ways to prevent this from happening to the two of you anymore is to have one of you visit some other person after the villager that you don't want has moved out, or have someone else invite the unwanted villager when they are in moving-out boxes, or for you to fill any empty spots yourself by going to Nook Mile Ticket islands rather than letting the game fill in the empty spot for you, or from the campsite or with an amiibo. Or don't visit each other anymore, but that doesn't sound like fun.

 

[sleepydreepy]

This happens all the time in the game, just make sure if you have an open plot it is filled by going to a Nook Mile Ticket island ASAP otherwise you will keep getting these "voided" villagers!

 

[Croconaw]

There’s nothing you can do about this, unfortunately. Just fill it with a villager of your choice by going to a Nook Miles Island, campsite, or adopting a villager from someone else before you are randomly graced with a random from your daughter’s island.

 

[kemdi]

You can't prevent this from happening, but another way to have some control of who moves into your island is through amiibo cards. They let you choose who specifically can move into your island. Authentic ones cost $, but there are ways to custom create them yourself.

 

[stitchmaker]

Same thing happened on both of my islands. Island 2 got Island 1 villager after I left it up to the game to decide.
Kept repeating and starting using Amiibo cards after a hunt that had 3 villager from my 2nd island and the villager that just left my island.

Devs should fix it and use the clear a void method from ACNL. In ACNL a visit to a full town cleared your void so no players got stuck with the villager. Rules for trading were don't visit until you clear your void in a full town.

 

[RosasMom]

Wow. So this is a thing? The game should really change this. If someone leaves your island, they should LEAVE your island and only come back if you amiibo them back. Well, at least now we know that when we have someone leave, we HAVE to replace them ourselves and not let the game choose for us. That's a shame because having the game choose was going to be part of the fun for me in starting a new village of my own, but to have 2 of my starter villagers be my daughter's old ones (neither of which I liked), was disappointing for both of us. Now, there is another "grab bag" element removed since we will just be swapping Quillson and Carrie back and forth in perpetuity.

Well, I guess there's still the campsite. We'll just have to be content with that and the Nook Miles islands to satisfy our desire for an element of surprise.

Thanks, All!

Post automatically merged: Jan 24, 2022

This is a normal feature of the game. A moved-out villager waits in a special hidden place until you visit or are visited by someone else, then they get added to a move-in queue in their game. Fans frequently call this the "void" or villagers "being voided" or "moving in from the void." I'm pretty sure the only ways to prevent this from happening to the two of you anymore is to have one of you visit some other person after the villager that you don't want has moved out, or have someone else invite the unwanted villager when they are in moving-out boxes, or for you to fill any empty spots yourself by going to Nook Mile Ticket islands rather than letting the game fill in the empty spot for you, or from the campsite or with an amiibo. Or don't visit each other anymore, but that doesn't sound like fun.

Ugh. It makes one want to ask before visiting someone, who they've had move out, lest you pick up their baggage. Actually, it's even worse, because Quillson was still with her when I joined. He wasn't voided yet. It's like they're hiding in the dark waiting for unsuspecting travelers to come along and attach themselves to. Hmm. Is it being friends or visiting or a combination of both that makes the villagers follow you like bedbugs? In other words, if I am not friends with someone but visit them, will I still get their rejects? Or, if I am friends with someone but do not visit, will their rejects still be in my queue?

Thanks!

 

[kiwikenobi]

I think the idea is to encourage people to play with more other people. If you're interacting with dozens of people over the internet, then the odds of you getting back your own villager again are very low. And then you have the random villagers from the other people to surprise you. The only time it becomes a problem is if you're only ever interacting with one other island. So if you are able to connect with people online, then you can get rid of your unwanted villagers that way. But if that's not an option for you, then quickly filling the empty plots is probably the only way you have to avoid getting villagers from the other island. Or not interacting with any other islands at all. If you play your game in total isolation, the game will eventually run out of villagers that it got from other islands that you visited or had people visit you from if you keep letting them move in, and it will start choosing new random ones again.

That said, I believe there is a limit to how many villagers the game will remember moving out of your town. It's possible that moving more and more villagers out will replace the oldest ones. Or maybe the newer ones just vanish. I don't actually know how that part works.

 

[RosasMom]

I think the idea is to encourage people to play with more other people. If you're interacting with dozens of people over the internet, then the odds of you getting back your own villager again are very low. And then you have the random villagers from the other people to surprise you. The only time it becomes a problem is if you're only ever interacting with one other island. So if you are able to connect with people online, then you can get rid of your unwanted villagers that way. But if that's not an option for you, then quickly filling the empty plots is probably the only way you have to avoid getting villagers from the other island. Or not interacting with any other islands at all. If you play your game in total isolation, the game will eventually run out of villagers that it got from other islands that you visited or had people visit you from if you keep letting them move in, and it will start choosing new random ones again.

That said, I believe there is a limit to how many villagers the game will remember moving out of your town. It's possible that moving more and more villagers out will replace the oldest ones. Or maybe the newer ones just vanish. I don't actually know how that part works.

Interesting. Seems like it would just be easier to program it so that you don't get your old villagers back. So how does one interact with other villages? I've visited other islands via Luna's dreams, but does that count? I'm guessing not since my daughter also did the Luna dreams many times and still got Quillson back from me (he's like some contagious disease that keeps spreading back and forth).

So here's a question: If I get a villager from someone else's "void" will they come to me with their proper house or will they come however they were at their last place? In other words, if they only had a starter house on their original island, will I get them in their starter house or their proper full house?

 

[kiwikenobi]

Dreams are just dreams, they're not "real" so nothing that happens in them counts. Anytime someone from another island visits your island, or you visit them, that counts to start transferring void villagers. So, if you have a Nintendo online subscription, you can visit or be visited by anyone else with one. There are lots of people on the trading and visiting boards here on TBT, so you can either do just a social visit, or you can trade items or things with people, or you could even purposely ask to visit someone specifically to clear your void, or to have them invite a villager you want to go away who is in moving-out boxes so that you'll never see them again.

I'm pretty sure villagers' starter houses turn into their proper houses when they move, but I can't confirm that for a fact.

 

[RosasMom]

Dreams are just dreams, they're not "real" so nothing that happens in them counts. Anytime someone from another island visits your island, or you visit them, that counts to start transferring void villagers. So, if you have a Nintendo online subscription, you can visit or be visited by anyone else with one. There are lots of people on the trading and visiting boards here on TBT, so you can either do just a social visit, or you can trade items or things with people, or you could even purposely ask to visit someone specifically to clear your void, or to have them invite a villager you want to go away who is in moving-out boxes so that you'll never see them again.

I'm pretty sure villagers' starter houses turn into their proper houses when they move, but I can't confirm that for a fact.

That's really good to know! I'll check out the other visiting options. I'm remembering that the dodo asks me if I want to visit online. I'll have to see what that's about. Also, I will do as you suggest and check out the visiting boards. Thanks again!

 

[Bobbo]

Throughout normal gameplay, my wife and I have exchanged the same horse villager (Clyde) 5 times!

 

[RosasMom]

Throughout normal gameplay, my wife and I have exchanged the same horse villager (Clyde) 5 times!

Oh lord! That's incredibly annoying!
It is good to know that it is a normal part of gameplay and not something that we did wrong. I feel like it makes one want to not have "friends" and not visit other islands though, lest we pick up all their reject villagers. This is complicated by the question of whether you would get their version with starter house (if applicable) or you get a clean version. If you would just get their version with cluttered house (with extra gifts that were given, etc.) or a starter house version, then why would anyone want that? We're just going to get amiibos and be done with it.

At first I was bummed out that the game removed that element of "grab bag" randomness from the game, but now I'm actually okay with it. There are still 2 other random grab-bag avenues available to meet villagers: the nook miles islands and the campsite. So, having this 3rd way of getting villagers be different, is okay I guess. As long as you get a clean version with their full house and not a starter house.

Post automatically merged: Jan 27, 2022

What would make getting villagers from other islands be interesting, is if it added to their dialogue. For example, if they occasionally talked about the interactions they had with other villagers from their previous island or talked about the fruit from that island (if different from yours), etc. Then it would genuinely feel more like you were adopting a villager with a history rather than someone else's altered version of a piece of programming that you could just as easily get a clean version of via amiibo.

 

[Boccages]

Wow. So this is a thing? The game should really change this. If someone leaves your island, they should LEAVE your island and only come back if you amiibo them back.

Might be a problem for you, but I like this feature of the game. If you want to avoid that, there are several work arounds : like filling the plots as soon as they are empty or amiibo bump the unwanted villagers that move in.

 

[azurill]

I really wish they would have done this differently. I wanted to get some random move Ins on my second island but the only villagers I got were from my main island. They are not bad villagers I really do like them I just wanted different villagers.

 

[RosasMom]

Might be a problem for you, but I like this feature of the game. If you want to avoid that, there are several work arounds : like filling the plots as soon as they are empty or amiibo bump the unwanted villagers that move in.

Yes, I kind of came to that conclusion in the post previous to the one you made. I'm partly okay with it since there are other options. All in all though, after reading the post from azurill, I do think it is an overall burdensome feature that clutters up the experience with unwanted villagers.

I guess I'm okay with getting someone else's rejects, but not more than once per villager. For example, my daughter should not have gotten Quillson for a second time after he already left her island once. I can (reluctantly) live with the fact that I got him and Carrie after they left her island, but for Quillson to show back up on her island yet again, was really too much. Oh well. It is what it is. I've read that Nintendo has no intention to change anything for the game anymore since it's a one-time purchase game and they can't keep asking for more like they can with the campsite version. So, if that is true, then the game is what it is and I can like it or lump it. Guess I'll choose to like it.

Post automatically merged: Feb 1, 2022

I really wish they would have done this differently. I wanted to get some random move Ins on my second island but the only villagers I got were from my main island. They are not bad villagers I really do like them I just wanted different villagers.

Ugh. I would have thought that for a second island, they would have reset everything and started from scratch. Did you ever get all new villagers via the campsite, island tours, or amiibos, or are you still in the earlier stages with the same ones?

 

[azurill]

Yes, I kind of came to that conclusion in the post previous to the one you made. I'm partly okay with it since there are other options. All in all though, after reading the post from azurill, I do think it is an overall burdensome feature that clutters up the experience with unwanted villagers.

I guess I'm okay with getting someone else's rejects, but not more than once per villager. For example, my daughter should not have gotten Quillson for a second time after he already left her island once. I can (reluctantly) live with the fact that I got him and Carrie after they left her island, but for Quillson to show back up on her island yet again, was really too much. Oh well. It is what it is. I've read that Nintendo has no intention to change anything for the game anymore since it's a one-time purchase game and they can't keep asking for more like they can with the campsite version. So, if that is true, then the game is what it is and I can like it or lump it. Guess I'll choose to like it.

Post automatically merged: Feb 1, 2022

Ugh. I would have thought that for a second island, they would have reset everything and started from scratch. Did you ever get all new villagers via the campsite, island tours, or amiibos, or are you still in the earlier stages with the same ones?

I can get new villages from the campsite or island hopping but not from letting them randomly move in. The only time a plot auto filled with someone not from my other island was in the beginning when I was filling the first three plots. As soon as I started visiting my main island any plot I tried to let autfill would fill in with someone from my main island. I’m more picky when island hopping or just don’t always have time to. It would be nice if you could just clear the villager queue.

 

[RosasMom]

... It would be nice if you could just clear the villager queue.

AGREED!!!