‼️ NEW VILLAGER MOVE IN GLITCH ‼️

[Zodiac Crossing]

oh boy. i just placed my 10th plot and adopted ankha who was kicked out via amiibo...i hope this doesn't get affected because i will literally be heart broken
side note: this glitch seems to be. affecting people who tt? not tt shaming but it seems that the only ones having issues are the ones who tt forward/backward. i dont tt so i will see what happens tomorrow, but as of now, the plot says "Sold to ankha"

 

[tangycrossing]

Thing is, I didn’t ask ankha to move in. You can pick up a villager from someone’s “void” by visiting them. The void is just what we call the data of a villager who has already moved out but the game recognizes that she was recently there.

Yeah I've heard you could pick them up from the void is as well, so I mean in those situations it wouldn't help but if you're deliberately adopting someone it helps. I was just trying to be helpful.

 

[brockbrock]

Well, I just got Audie from a friend (not forced out) and when she moved in her interior had completely different furniture and flooring/wallpaper. It’s really weird but it also actually oddly enough suits her really well... dare I say better than her actual interior. The exterior is fine. I didn’t time travel so it’s strange.

 

[artisansystem]

oh boy. i just placed my 10th plot and adopted ankha who was kicked out via amiibo...i hope this doesn't get affected because i will literally be heart broken
side note: this glitch seems to be. affecting people who tt? not tt shaming but it seems that the only ones having issues are the ones who tt forward/backward. i dont tt so i will see what happens tomorrow, but as of now, the plot says "Sold to ankha"

I don’t TT and it happened to me— so I’m not sure that has anything to do with it. I hope Ankha arrives safely!

 

[5cm/s]

i have a similar issue! i put down a plot yesterday and immediately visited someone to adopt dizzy from them (they'd gotten him from a mystery island and moved him out naturally, so no amiibo was involved), and when i came back, the plot said that hippeux had bought it. i figured hippeux had been in my void and bought the plot in the, like, 5 minutes it took me to get dizzy. but today, when i checked hippeux's house, expecting him to be moving in, i just get the "i've moved out message"

super disappointing ;; if anyone finds a fix PLEASE let me know :''')

 

[Hopeless Opus]

wow, this is literally so disappointing. i don't understand why they can't get it together already.

 

[brockbrock]

Well, I just got Audie from a friend (not forced out) and when she moved in her interior had completely different furniture and flooring/wallpaper. It’s really weird but it also actually oddly enough suits her really well... dare I say better than her actual interior. The exterior is fine. I didn’t time travel so it’s strange.

Disregard my post guys, I didn’t know the pink/pastel look wasn’t her actual interior and that the blue/beach look is. So my game didn’t glitch. I feel so bad for all of you who are having problems. I hope this gets fixed.

 

[Dork]

Nintendo's customer support line is open 6 AM to 7 PM PST. I'd recommend calling since the chat and SMS lines tend to get pretty busy, but SMS is the best if you're planning on doing other things that day. Just keep in mind that you won't receive a response outside of business hours.

Yes this!!!
Reminder to contact Nintendo today if you want to bring the issue to their attention asap!

 

[starlightsong]

Oh man this is really scary, luckily nothing has happened to me yet but I'm afraid to kick anyone out now!

since it seems that she came from my friend's void, i think you'd be okay if you haven't visited/been visited by anyone who's voided a villager lately...? i'm not sure though because when i was talking to the friend who voided lily, he told me that another friend of ours also got his lily and got a glitched "this plot is reserved for (blank)'s home" plot from her back when that glitch was still going on! so unless it's a coincidence and i interacted with someone else who had also voided lily, then his voided lily somehow passed on to 2 people and glitched 2 games it's really worrying and i'm afraid to have anyone else move out now as well.

 

[Jared:3]

since it seems that she came from my friend's void, i think you'd be okay if you haven't visited/been visited by anyone who's voided a villager lately...? i'm not sure though because when i was talking to the friend who voided lily, he told me that another friend of ours also got his lily and got a glitched "this plot is reserved for (blank)'s home" plot from her back when that glitch was still going on! so unless it's a coincidence and i interacted with someone else who had also voided lily, then his voided lily somehow passed on to 2 people and glitched 2 games it's really worrying and i'm afraid to have anyone else move out now as well.

Luckily the glitch didn't happen to me, Maple moved out safety and Marshal moved in safely so I'm happy!

 

[Dwayne Johnson]

as a follow up deidres house is gone but I still dk why it took more than a day, still scary tho

 

[Jay]

one of my villagers that's an amiibo wants to move out, if i gave them away will there be a glitch involved? because I wont do that if so lol

 

[Dork]

one of my villagers that's an amiibo wants to move out, if i gave them away will there be a glitch involved? because I wont do that if so lol

It’s hard to tell for certain tbh :/ I’m not sure what the proper safe steps are

Post automatically merged: Apr 5, 2020

and as an update ankha’s ghost house is still here blah

 

[Gingersnap]

All of this is extremely worrying, especially since I've visited a lot of islands and I don't know which one of my friends villagers have been sent to the void. I want to go island hopping today to look for a new villager with NMT, but seeing that someone above had a random move-in while going to adopt a villager from someone else is worrisome. Should I just hold off on building new plots entirely until its fixed?

 

[Shinon]

Yep. Newest glitch involving villager trading. Honestly, I see more and more glitches and bugs in this game. Cmon Nintendoooo

I mean, or everyone could stop using exploits and blaming Nintendo for that causing glitchy behavior in the game? Because from everything I've read about how this operates, it's essentially a soft exploit of game mechanics to achieve a metasystem never intended in the game. Unless by trading you meant just visiting other islands and hoping random luck is on your side? If so, then pardon my terse intro.

 

[usa-chan]

I mean, or everyone could stop using exploits and blaming Nintendo for that causing glitchy behavior in the game? Because from everything I've read about how this operates, it's essentially a soft exploit of game mechanics to achieve a metasystem never intended in the game. Unless by trading you meant just visiting other islands and hoping random luck is on your side? If so, then pardon my terse intro.

what do you mean by this? what exploits - tting, amiibos, adopting villagers from other towns?

 

[Shinon]

That's why I ended with saying if it was just normal visiting islands and hoping for that best, then excuse the earlier statement. But there are also the exploitative methods which involve gaming (heh) the systems involved in villager AI to achieve a single specific outcome.

 

[Dork]

That's why I ended with saying if it was just normal visiting islands and hoping for that best, then excuse the earlier statement. But there are also the exploitative methods which involve gaming (heh) the systems involved in villager AI to achieve a single specific outcome.

i don’t see how exploits have anything to do with the current glitches. The first one involved forcing out villager via campsite which is literally a game mechanic that was glitched from the beginning. The second one involved balloons no longer appearing after you’ve popped 300 which is a necessary game mechanic especially regarding the current events. And this glitch involves moving in villagers that were forced out either by picking them up from the void or otherwise. This literally has nothing to do with exploits.

 

[thanny]

Hopefully Nintendo will fix this bizarre issue altogether regarding villagers moving in and out altogether, an old issue got fixed just for a new one to pop up... Just going to be sharing some more variables that happened personally to me.

I put down a plot just for a tenth villager with no one in mind to move in. During the vacancy of the plot, I have been travelling to most of my friends' islands. One of my friends happened to have Friga move out a few days prior to my most recent visit. So when I return to my island, I get Friga, which is perfectly normal in a gameplay perspective. Later I check the house sign, and it says "I've moved out!" like many posters have reported here. I have talked to his Friga in a few instances but has never specifically asked her to move to my island. And the most mind-blowing thing is, she's got requested to move to someone else's island which she agreed to and is now operating normally on another player island.

So apparently the issue is not limited to only inviting/evicting a specific villager, but also if you're unlucky. unsuspectingly and naively put down a plot, you're also exposed to this bug...

 

[cheezu]

Yes, of course, game developers are only human and I'm happy that, at the very least, Nintendo are addressing these glitches.
However; for a game where villager move-ins and move-outs are such a paramount part, I'd have expected this to be tested thoroughly before the game release and it just seems like it wasn't.
This isn't just a minor glitch such as a mistranslation or funny dialogue... this is really game-breaking - imagine having your lovely island and anticipating your favorite arrival the next day only to have their plot glitched/the "move out" sign there and not really being able to proceed.

It's because of this glitch that I'm worried to invite in amiibos that I've spent a lot of money on or do trades with people.