I've seen way too many people become victims of villagers moving out without warning even though many say they talk to their villagers everyday for rumors of people leaving or no pings at all.
Well, I'm going to teach you my way of dealing with moving rumors and how I've never lost a villager. I pretty much noticed this when I have attempted to cycle a few villagers out of my town and it works pretty dang well. It may take some time due to spamming your villagers with conversations.
Hopefully this guide makes enough sense and will prevent anyone from losing any more dreamies. I commonly talk about this method in threads, but I thought it would be time to actually make a small guide so that people can see it all together.
Well, I'm going to teach you my way of dealing with moving rumors and how I've never lost a villager. I pretty much noticed this when I have attempted to cycle a few villagers out of my town and it works pretty dang well. It may take some time due to spamming your villagers with conversations.
- Overview
This is a pretty simple, but it can take a little while with a lot of harassment to villagers. In your town, there are different kinds of rumors that villagers can tell. There are moving rumors, villager rumors, and the consequences of rumors.
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- Moving Rumors
You hear these rumors from villagers if someone is thinking of moving.
This is self-explanatory. This is what everyone looks for to stop their dreamies from moving. These usually show up about every three to four days. In my small experience with cycling, every four days is a better chance than three days.
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- Villager Rumors/Consequences of Rumors
When no one has no intention of moving, villagers will talk about these. (These are taken from the AC wikia, with the Peppy one added by me since it was missing.)
-Cranky villagers will state that rumors can be frightening.
-Jock villagers may ask to spread rumors about their latest world record, or complain that others say that they are a prince from another planet.
-Normal villagers will comment that they will only spread rumors they have seen themselves.
-Smug villagers may remark that they have done things with other villagers, but refuse to elaborate on the details.
-Snooty villagers will use fabricated examples to show the player that simple rumors can spread very quickly.
-Uchi villagers will complain that rumors are circulating that they are known for one sport, when it is in fact another.
-Peppy villagers will ask the player for any gossip, think you are keeping something secret, and ask for you to spread the details.
I repeat. WHEN NO ONE IS MOVING, VILLAGERS WILL TALK ABOUT THE ABOVE RUMORS.
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- What to do
Every day when you load up the game, talk to your villagers. Talk to them until you either get the village rumors (depending on the personality type) or rumors of someone leaving.
TALK TO MORE THAN ONE VILLAGER.
If you hear village rumors from one villager, move on to another villager. This is to prove that there is no one moving.
In my town, the Cranky villagers are the biggest gossips and almost always tell me when someone is gonna move. I have two in my town. So when doing this method, I talked to Gaston. He gave me a village rumor and I thought all was good. Well, when I talked to another villager (Deirdre, I think), she told me Gaston was thinking of moving.
Therefore, you need to hear village rumors from more than one villager in order to be safe that no one is for sure moving. I've found that it is easier to get moving rumors out of villagers than village ones, but you still need to harass them until you've learned for sure that no one is thinking of moving.
Hopefully this guide makes enough sense and will prevent anyone from losing any more dreamies. I commonly talk about this method in threads, but I thought it would be time to actually make a small guide so that people can see it all together.
