How to keep voided/streetpass villagers from moving into your town?

[Tomoe Hotaru]

I know this is rather specific which is why I decided to make a thread about it.

My question is if you can somehow avoid voided-villagers after you "caught" one while playing online.
I know that someone is moving in when I skip to the next day and since that?s my 10th villager, he was definitely in someone?s void.
Now, I also know that you can "overwrite" villagers. If I invited one villager to my town and then, on the same day, invited another one, only the later should move into my town right? (assuming I have space for both)

So I came to wonder if I could avoid the unwanted villager moving in by inviting another villager to my town on the same day I "caught" the first villager? Or will voided villagers always move in and can?t be overwritten?

If someone here has experience with- or any other knowledge regarding this scenario, I would love to hear your advice.^^

 

[Croconaw]

Yeah, you can overwrite villagers. If you invite one villager into your town, and you invite a second villager into your town on the same day, then the most recent villager that you invited will be the one that moves into your town.

I wouldn’t think you can avoid villagers from the void, but I hope to be wrong. If there is a method to definitely avoid receiving villagers from the void, I would love to know what that method is. The void can be pretty annoying, especially when you paid or traded for a villager, and a random villager from the void comes to your town instead. That would aggravated me, especially if I paid or traded for said villager.

 

[Tomoe Hotaru]

I wouldn’t think you can avoid villagers from the void, but I hope to be wrong. If there is a method to definitely avoid receiving villagers from the void, I would love to know what that method is. The void can be pretty annoying, especially when you paid or traded for a villager, and a random villager from the void comes to your town instead. That would aggravated me, especially if I paid or traded for said villager.

Thank you for the info!
So basically, even though you can overwrite the villager that?s supposed to move in, this won?t work for villagers from the void?
That?s pretty frustrating. I had hoped that I could maybe adopt another animal so I wouldnt have to go through the process of cycling out the unwanted one... oh well ^^ll

 

[~Unicorn~]

i hear that you need to go to a town with 10 villagers in it to clear your void without giving void villagers to someone else. i've never tried this though.
for streetpass villagers, just turn off your streetpass for acnl or don't use your 3ds in public.
(hopefully this is what you meant)

 

[Croconaw]

i hear that you need to go to a town with 10 villagers in it to clear your void without giving void villagers to someone else. i've never tried this though.
for streetpass villagers, just turn off your streetpass for acnl or don't use your 3ds in public.
(hopefully this is what you meant)

Would there be a way to be able to prove the method works? Maybe if you know for a fact that someone is in your void, and you go to a town with ten villagers to clear it, and see if that voided character moves into your town in the next few days. That’s how I would think someone would test this method, anyway?

 

[~Unicorn~]

Would there be a way to be able to prove the method works? Maybe if you know for a fact that someone is in your void, and you go to a town with ten villagers to clear it, and see if that voided character moves into your town in the next few days. That’s how I would think someone would test this method, anyway?

what i mean is that if someone had moved out of your town recently, and if you go to someone's town with 10 villagers to clear the void it's cleared without anyone being affected.
i read it on some acnl blog, but i haven't done it myself.
for villagers about to plot, i don't think there is a way.

 

[moonchu]

what i mean is that if someone had moved out of your town recently, and if you go to someone's town with 10 villagers to clear the void it's cleared without anyone being affected.
i read it on some acnl blog, but i haven't done it myself.
for villagers about to plot, i don't think there is a way.

i haven't "seriously" tested the method, but back in the day, that's exactly what we used to do on the forums here. if someone moved out, i'd go to a town with 10 villagers before i visited anyone else's. i hadn't heard any complaints about someone receiving a voided villager from the method, but i wouldn't say that it's concrete.

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also, it's intriguing to see now that people hardly comment about having a clear void. i could've sworn that a few years ago, everyone was writing that before visiting someone else's town.

 

[Tomoe Hotaru]

what i mean is that if someone had moved out of your town recently, and if you go to someone's town with 10 villagers to clear the void it's cleared without anyone being affected.
i read it on some acnl blog, but i haven't done it myself.
for villagers about to plot, i don't think there is a way.

It would be interesting if we could test this, but someone would have to take the risk. In your example you would go to a town with 10 villagers and then immediately go to one with 9 (maybe more than once) and see if they got the voided villager or not.

I still think its a shame (and wonder why) the game supposedly allows you to accidentally overwrite a villager you invited, but doesn?t allow to overwrite a vilager set to move in from the void if you know they are comming... kind of unfair

 

[Underneath The Stars]

Someone who has a cycling town that easily moves in amiibo villagers should test it lol.

atm, Prince is leaving my town & I’ll avoid trading until I’m able to get Muffy. Sigh. I swear if I get a random move in in replacement of Prince I’ll be so pissed.