What determines which villagers will be in the city?

[sock]

I was talking to a friend about this last night and he got me wondering - is there any way to know/change which villagers will turn up in the city?

I did have a quick Google but nothing really turned up, so I thought I'd try here!

Many thanks

 

[BronzeElf]

Pretty sure the game just runs an RNG as to what villager will come up, and then cancels and restarts if it picks a villager you already have. Only way to change is through hacking, not sure the Wii-equivalent to game manipulating is but I guess it would just pick the RNG number for the villager you chose (if such a device exists)

edit: oops thought you meant in the town.
yeah probably still RNG. when in doubt, RNG

 

[sock]

Pretty sure the game just runs an RNG as to what villager will come up, and then cancels and restarts if it picks a villager you already have. Only way to change is through hacking, not sure the Wii-equivalent to game manipulating is but I guess it would just pick the RNG number for the villager you chose (if such a device exists)

edit: oops thought you meant in the town.
yeah probably still RNG. when in doubt, RNG

That's what I'm thinking - if not surely someone would have talked about it somewhere online

 

[jvgsjeff]

When I re-enter the city repeatedly, I tend to see the same villagers repeat over and over. So I don't think it's completely random. Maybe there's a randomly-selected pool of (20-50?) villagers that cycle there for a time (possibly each month?), but I'm not sure on the specifics.