I AM AT MY WIT'S END

[Lululand]

Ok so before I bore/anger everyone with my frustrated rants, quick question: has anyone here ever managed to make an amiibo or amiibo card-summoned villager to move out when their town had at least one non-amiibo villager in it that wasn't the last to come?


I'm asking because I've been trying to make somebody but Apollo, Broccolo, Norma and Rocket move out for almost 4 days straight. And by that I mean TTing one day at a time to get villagers to ping me as soon as they want to move (which happens once every 3-4 days since I have 10 villagers), aka getting one ping every few minutes or so.

In order to make things a little less confusing, I'll just lay out my town's roster for y'all

- Apollo (found in campsite)
- Rocket (random move-in)
- Broccolo (adopted from another town)
- Norma (adopted from another town)
- Elmer (amiibo card)
- Rhonda (amiibo card)
- Lily (amiibo card)
- Bill (amiibo card)
- Bree (amiibo card)
- Inkwell (amiibo figure)

As you can see, the only villagers that have asked to move since I've been trying to open up another spot for a dreamie have been the first 4, aka the only ones I really, really want to keep and couldn't get back in case I lost them...
I should also probably mention this has nothing to do with the order in which they had originally come to my town, as Norma is the second newest and Bree and Bill have been here almost since day 1.



Now of course I initially blamed this just on bad luck. But after a few attempts that always gave me the same results I tried everything: ignoring them and doing favors for the ones I wanted to kick out (aka maximising their friendship), changing the time of the day and even the month I played in, even cycling out Rhonda and Blanche using their amiibo cards (alternating between them, ergo using Blacnche to kick out Rhonda then using Rhonda to kick out Blanche) for a couple times in the hope that something would've "shifted" the game's mechanics... but nothing.


I am not exagerrating at all when I say I must've had EXCLUSIVELY one of the first 4 of the list ping me 50+ times by now. This is getting ridiculous. This can't be just coincidence. Something in my game is dead set on making one of them move out before anyone else does. Either something has changed since the update to outright LOCK amiibo villagers in place, or I'm going insane and just hallucinating things because there is no, frigging, way, this is just bad luck.



I am so depressed right now. I'm sad, discouraged and I just don't know what to do. If I can't cycle out any of the villagers I don't want, I can't complete my dreamie list.
And if I can't work towards the goal of obtaining all my dreamies, what is even the point of playing anymore? I've already finished the base of my town and just stupidly just used some of my cards to fill up villager slots in preparation to getting the town ready to have its dream uploaded, thinking I'd gradually replace them with my faves with the help of this community... little did I know Nintendo decided to program the update against me and now my game is giving me the finger and I don't know what the hell I can do about it.

Part of me just wants to start over my 2nd game file with the learned lesson to never use a card again unless it's for someone I want to keep. But I can't do that, at least not yet because I've grown so attached to this town. It's the first town I've actually, properly finished. It's got a theme and an aesthetic that's very near and dear to my heart and I can't imagine ever growing to like another one more than this, and neither I can just build all this town from scratch.



I apologise for the semi-rant but if anyone here wants to shut my arse down by telling me they've never had the same problem, that what I claim is impossible has actually been done countless times already by others with no issue whatsover... please do, at this point I'm almost just curious about what the hey could be causing me this mess.

I hope you're all having a nice day.... better than mine at least

 

[UnwrittenTale]

All I really say here is that I feel your frustration and offer my deepest consolations. I have been here before. It made me extremely upset.

The only thing I could do to remedy it, sadly, was to scan amiibo cards over the ones I disliked with ones I tolerated, or straight buy them off of ebay.

 

[Jackfrost]

Really, whoever thought this was a good idea to put it in the update must of been Satan or something. I mean why must they make it so hard for them to move out, we could just rescan them back in if they move!

 

[Haskell]

Just restart?

 

[DJStarstryker]

I've never heard of someone being able to get an amiibo villager to ping to move out. I still haven't heard it confirmed yet, but I believe the only way to make them move out is to scan another card and force them to move out that way.

 

[SunsetDelta]

I'm sorry that you had to suffer through this villager drought. It's not fun.
I did the same thing you did back when I had Cyclone, my first cycle town. Literally NOBODY was moving out other than the non-amiibo villagers, and over the course of when I had 8 amiibo villagers because I'm so smart, only TWO moved out naturally. I was forced to sell my town and start over. Which is why Monsoon is a thing now.

Honestly, I'm not surprised that this problem exists. (small rant time, yaaaaay...)

I mean... We're talking about Nintendo, the king of bad decisions.

This update was 50% useful and fun stuff, 50% amiibo cash cow.

Why else would they make the Move Out ping rate abysmal? I'm sure they did it on purpose! Their intention was to force you to buy more amiibo cards and figures until you have ALL 397* Villagers to cycle through at will! Typical business method of getting money after their main product (in this case the Wii U) was a massive failure. Revive an old game and infect it with amiibos. Boom. Success.

(397* = Series 1~4 + Welcome Amiibo + Sanrio + Zelda + Splatoon + Felyne)

(rant over, go on about your day/night, feel free to shut me down or whatever lol, I just needed to vent how I really felt about this update over the past 2 months since it was released.)

I feel much better now after typing all this. QᴗQ

 

[DJStarstryker]

FWIW, I think they probably did the whole amiibo card villager not moving thing intentionally. People would complain when they stopped playing for a week or two, booted up the game, and found out their favorite villager moved away while they were gone. If you scan that villager as an amiibo, you don't have that problem.

I know, all of us pre-update launch assumed it wouldn't be that way. We figured the benefit of owning a dreamy's card would be that we could force them to move back in at any time if they moved away unexpectedly. Nintendo just did it differently.

 

[Loriii]

If you have multiple, or at least, more than one copy of the game, you can make a cycling town and scan the amiibo there instead, move them out then invite them to your main town. I noticed that they follow the normal/usual procedure of moving out if the villager comes from another town (based from personal experience). If you don't have amiibo, maybe, you could go to the trading plaza or ask someone to scan the villagers for you then invite them when they're in-boxes.

 

[mayorhana]

I had an amiibo villager request to move after three days time travel. Ellie moved out so I could get my dreamie, Pietro in.
So, I know it's definitely possible for them to move out, based on my own experience. I'm so sorry this is happening, though. I know how frustrating it must be.

 

[NicoShaytan]

Based on what everyone has been saying, it looks like YMMV. Some have been very lucky in gething amiibo villagers to move out, while you, OP, and others get stuck with them.

This could depend on the amiibo character specifically, weather you used an amiibo scanner vs the new 3DS, or your games are bugged in some way... These are the only possibilities I can think of. And while they are in no way answers or help, I am very sorry you all have been dealing with this. My closest friend just scanned in Epona and as we've just learned this...things could prove difficult in future.

I'd say the best thing we can do is give in to Nintendo's evil plan. Buy the amiibos we need to replace the old ones. I do like what Role said as well; we could try scanning one into a cycle town next time, then having them move into your main town. But if they won't move out of the cycle town... (sweats)

 

[Foxglove]

That is extremely frustrating, I'm so sorry for anyone having to deal with this I'd heard enough in advance to hack the villagers into my game instead of using the cards (I own the ones I want, so it seems fair while saving me the hassle). When a new plot appears, I just switch that future villager for the one I want. You can also easily put villagers in boxes, though I understand the reluctance for tampering with the save file

 

[Katie1313]

I have four amiibo card neighbors, four from figures, and two that moved in normally. I don't think it's possible for the figure ones to move out normally, so if I ever needed them to move out I'd just scan a card in to get them out. But I digress, the only two neighbors who want to move are the ones who moved in normally. It just keeps going between the two over and over and OVER. It's been doing this for months. I was starting to think I was the only one! Here's to hoping we have better luck!

 

[Lululand]

I'd say the best thing we can do is give in to Nintendo's evil plan. Buy the amiibos we need to replace the old ones.

OH HELL NO. I'm not giving Nintendo a dime after they sneakily slipped us a mechanic that basically ruined my town.

And I'm not saying this just out of pettiness. The appeal of amiibo cards is completely dead for me at this point. I'm never scanning a single card again now that I know I can't change my mind.
Hell, I originally scanned Lily because I wanted her to stay as one of my "final" villagers but as I often do, I changed my mind along the way.

In the future, even if I do want to have a villager I possess the card of, I'm not using it. I don't want to be stuck with that decision until I frigging die, no matter how much I think I love the villager at that moment. I'm still just going to reset for them or adopt them from someone else.

What's ironic was that I was excited about this feature. It's no mystery this whole amiibo card thing is a huge cash grab, but I didn't care. I was HAPPY to give Nintendo my money if it meant having more control over my cute lil fictional citizens. But now? This mechanic is just dead to me at this point.

Also even if I was forced to just buy the villagers I want in order to get all my dreamies, it's not like Nintendo would've profited from it. I would've looked for the singular cards from online sellers and bought them secondhand. Did they really expect me to buy 38472987389229839808 blind packs for 5 effing Euros a piece? Hell I couldn't even do that if I wanted to, as the 3-4 packs I've already bought were literally the last ones left in the stores I've been to. If they created another reason for players to want those cards, the least they could do was re-stock them. If there are no more cards to go around, people are just gonna resort to buying them secondhand anyway, so what was the point?


So guys, I guess the moral of the story is: learn from my mistake, and DO NOT USE AMIIBO CARDS IN NEW LEAF, unless you're running a cycling/trash town or are 100000000% sure you want that villager to stay, because there could be no turning back.



Honestly I'm a lot more calm now. I've been sitting on an idea for a new town for a while now, it's just a shame that this one, the one that will always be dearest to me, will never have the villagers I want. I'm gonna re-scan all my current villagers' cards for my village so that their extremely wrecked homes can look 100% original again, then update my town's Dream and then just be done with it and start working on a new one on my 2nd file.

Hopefully that will be the one in which I actually get to decide my full roster.

edit: grammar. [SUB]How the hey did I write hello instead of hell geez I'm a mess rn[/SUB]

 

[Videoguy612]

Yeah.. Nintendo thought it would be smart to have scanned amiibo villagers NOT be able to move ever.. NOT SMART!