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[Guide] Fool Proof Guide to Moving Villagers OUT

I have been doing this for a week now and got Tangy from my 2nd town into my main town!~
I also sold Ken to someone c: Lovely guide and ty <3
 
For those who have villagers they wanna keep, while needing to kick someone out,
this thread would be most helpful. ^^
 
So if you have a villager who pings you to move that you wanna keep, would you just jump 4 days ahead again? or do you go back to the day your newest villager moved in? I'm just curious since Agnes was an accidental move in (i picked her up from my cycling town) and she put her house in my campsite area. .-.
 
So if you have a villager who pings you to move that you wanna keep, would you just jump 4 days ahead again? or do you go back to the day your newest villager moved in? I'm just curious since Agnes was an accidental move in (i picked her up from my cycling town) and she put her house in my campsite area. .-.

I think there is a chance that they decide to stay on their own so it isn't worth risking it, I think?
 
I think there is a chance that they decide to stay on their own so it isn't worth risking it, I think?

I should've explained myself a bit more clearly. I meant like once you get a villager to ping you to leave and you tell them to stay, do you go back to the day the newest villager moves in? or do you go forward 4 days or go forward day by day til someone else decides to leave?
 
I should've explained myself a bit more clearly. I meant like once you get a villager to ping you to leave and you tell them to stay, do you go back to the day the newest villager moves in? or do you go forward 4 days or go forward day by day til someone else decides to leave?

OH. Yeah. If you tell someone to stay you go ahead 2~4 days and check if someone else wishes to leave.
 
Hi!
Peck randomly moved in right in front of my police station but I was fast-travelling and missed the day that he moved in: which mean I didn't greet him on his first day. Is that going to affect how long it take for him to move out?
I've been trying for a whole month and neither him nor Hazel is moving out. So does not saying Welcome to them or not talking to them much affect their leaving %?

Thank you very much, I'm trying to get my dreamies but they're making me sad.
 
Hi!
Peck randomly moved in right in front of my police station but I was fast-travelling and missed the day that he moved in: which mean I didn't greet him on his first day. Is that going to affect how long it take for him to move out?
I've been trying for a whole month and neither him nor Hazel is moving out. So does not saying Welcome to them or not talking to them much affect their leaving %?

Thank you very much, I'm trying to get my dreamies but they're making me sad.

I think you should talk to them once.
Not sure about it though.

Cherry moved into my town and I skipped the day she was first in boxes and it took her longer to ping me.
 
This is a good guide but while following it, I actually lost one of my dreamies. I followed the whole "if a villager moves in its okay to skip a few days" and I lost Melba ;^; The world is cruel lol
 
Really well written guide ^^
I have a semi related question though. If I have all 10 of my dreamies and I want to make sure none of them move out, when can I expect them to ping to move? I want to prevent them from moving out ever
 
Really great guide. Thanks for this.

What you do is time travel day by day, never skipping a day, until you finally get a 9th villager to move in. Congrats, you probably don?t like him/her.

This killed me, because it's so true.
 
Disclaimer: My experience is my own and is by no means the definitive and only voice for everyone else's experience. Read up on what you can and take away from what you will and form your own opinions from your own experience. Although I hope what I have shared will help shape a better outcome for those reading it. I was new to a vast majority of TT'ing techniques and a lot of the information was overwhelming at first, but don't fret, it will all make sense as you begin to apply the concepts. You may fail and suffer dire consquences, but you would be wise to learn from it.

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This is the first serious method I've used since playing ACNL and I can tell you it's worked out flawlessly in my experience so far. I haven't read every page on here but I would like to share my experience. But first, here are some condensed take-aways in case you don't want to dive into my post:

  • Have at least 2 informants, this is practically imperative as my story below will tell you.
  • Greet new incoming villagers ONCE the first time they move into your town even if you hate them. It will take them a lot longer to move out otherwise.
  • Don't wait for a ping from a villager you're hoping to move, trust in your 2 informants to provide that information.
  • As your TT'ing, don't forget to also chat up your other favorite villagers if you want to keep your dreamies especially! I started with just Genji and Bruce as favorites but I quickly amassed other dreamies. Talk to all your favorites multiple times as if they were your first 2 informants. They may also shed light on who's thinking of moving.
  • Completely ignore the villagers you dislike aside from the first greeting when they moved in. Ignore them even if they ping you, for whatever reason. Case in point:



In Yuidere's case... As I've read other examples of this, where villagers will ping you asking to move and you have the option of telling them to stay or to get the heck out. Sometimes, when you tell them to go away, that villager may SPITE you by saying they'll stay instead. This is why I say you should ignore them completely, even if they ping you. Let your informants gossip to you that that villager is moving and then wait as you TT one day at a time for Isabelle to tell you that villager is at last, finally moving the next day. I'm sure the action of the villager depends on their personality as well so it's just all around a safer bet to ignore them even when they ping you.

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In the tutorial, it specifies to pick 1 favorite villager as the informant. As others previously in this thread can attest, it's good to have at least 2 and I had no issues with that starting out as Genji and Bruce were my only favorites at the time. This came in extremely handy because often times, 1 of them would inform me when someone was moving but hardly ever both. They're also 2 different personalities; not sure if that makes a difference however. Genji is a jock type villager and Bruce is a cranky type villager.

On one of my TT'ing adventures, Genji got sick for 3 consecutive days. I gave him medicine every day until he was better but during that time, he didn't want to talk about anything other than him being terribly sick. This is where having a second safety net like Bruce came in super handy.

I will also state that as I'm TT'ing one day at a time (aside from TT'ing max of 4 days forward when someone just moved in and is completely unboxed), that it was good that you talked to ALL of your favorite villagers multiple times so that they feel they're still loved in a sense while completely and utterly ignoring those you wanted out aside from the first greeting when they move in otherwise, as tutorial says, it will take them a long time to get their arses out of your town. I can attest to that by experience:

For example, I had Chadder the mouse move in. I failed to greet him the first day he showed up. In that time, when Barold and Eunice moved in after Chadder, I greeted them once when Isabelle told me someone has just moved in. Fast forward a bit as I was TT'ing, Barold and Eunice have already moved out while Chadder still remains. TT__TT Basically, you would think Chadder would leave before Barold and Eunice but he's still around! I failed to greet him in the beginning and now it's taking him quite some time to get out.

This technique still worked whether I had 9 villagers or 10. Although I will say it is not impossible for a villager to move out when you're at 8, as I've had it happen with this technique but regardless, I knew who was moving through my informants.

I've used this guide along with these additions to get rid of some pesky villagers that wouldn't move out. Highly recommended! Also, as others have said before, you can quit without saving if they decided to stay instead of move.
 
I've talked to my animals until they said they gotta think about things and start walking around thinking. I was wondering (if it does take a month) can i move back to the date that is today orr? I have been a year out of date before and NO ONE moved out so i know that's safe but i only did it once... I'm hoping to not lose any more villagers due to my stupidity.

- - - Post Merge - - -

What i meant was lets say i went to the 20th of November, is it safe to travel back to today's date or do i have to do it gradually?
 
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Oh well it says on the front page. My bad. I also found out of a animal says "____ is leaving to day" and that villager pings you, you can fast forward to that day and low and behold they are leaving. It what happened to Aurora anyway on first try.
 
Uh oh--Lolly just pinged me to move while there are only 8 villagers in my town.

Also, I was never warned by my TWO "informants" that Maple wanted to move out. I only found out when Isabelle told me when loading the game. :( so now she'll be living in my cycling town until I've gone through 16 villagers in Moga. :(

What I've been doing and that has been working without trouble until these two:

Starting at 9 villagers..

TT one day at a time. NEVER skipping days like the guide suggests. I lost a handful of villagers by jumping ahead 3 days after one moves in. It just isn't that easily predicted.

Talk to any two villagers until they get sick of talking to you (they say they need to think and then walk around thinking). If they don't mention anyone moving out, TT one day ahead and talk to any two villagers again.

Once they say someone is moving out:
a) If you want to keep them, go walk around them. If they don't ping you, TT 1 hour ahead and walk around them again. If they still don't ping you, keep going only 1 hour ahead. Once they ping you, tell them you don't want them to leave.
b) If you want them to leave, just TT one day at a time until Isabelle tells you they're leaving tomorrow.

Then, let them move out. Then TT one day at a time until Isabelle tells you someone is moving in.

Then go back to talking to any two villagers every day until they mention someone is moving out. :) It's that easy...

BUT with these last two it just didn't work. Maybe I need to talk to three villagers to make sure I don't lose anyone.

And this thing with Lolly pinging me to move out when I only have 8 villagers really rustles my jimmies. :O I don't have a clue why that happened. Unless she was thinking of moving out while Maple was in boxes...
 
Bookmarked for future guideance! Thanks!
 
Uh oh--Lolly just pinged me to move while there are only 8 villagers in my town.

Also, I was never warned by my TWO "informants" that Maple wanted to move out. I only found out when Isabelle told me when loading the game. :( so now she'll be living in my cycling town until I've gone through 16 villagers in Moga. :(

What I've been doing and that has been working without trouble until these two:

Starting at 9 villagers..

TT one day at a time. NEVER skipping days like the guide suggests. I lost a handful of villagers by jumping ahead 3 days after one moves in. It just isn't that easily predicted.

Talk to any two villagers until they get sick of talking to you (they say they need to think and then walk around thinking). If they don't mention anyone moving out, TT one day ahead and talk to any two villagers again.

Once they say someone is moving out:
a) If you want to keep them, go walk around them. If they don't ping you, TT 1 hour ahead and walk around them again. If they still don't ping you, keep going only 1 hour ahead. Once they ping you, tell them you don't want them to leave.
b) If you want them to leave, just TT one day at a time until Isabelle tells you they're leaving tomorrow.

Then, let them move out. Then TT one day at a time until Isabelle tells you someone is moving in.

Then go back to talking to any two villagers every day until they mention someone is moving out. :) It's that easy...

BUT with these last two it just didn't work. Maybe I need to talk to three villagers to make sure I don't lose anyone.

And this thing with Lolly pinging me to move out when I only have 8 villagers really rustles my jimmies. :O I don't have a clue why that happened. Unless she was thinking of moving out while Maple was in boxes...

Its random i think. I talked to every villager i didn't want to move including Aurora. Next day (in game because i TT'd) "oh Aurora is thinking of moving out" she pinged me, I let her go. I don't think it matters if they ping you def worry if they don't. At least you can make them stay then. So don't worry about it.
 
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