In case anyone is interested my cute blue rhino Hornsby is moving out and I am already regretting letting him go… if anyone wants to convince him to come to their island let me know
Here he is at his going away party
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I felt the same way about letting Felicity go. Especially since I was unable to secure a future home for her leaving her to the Void.
Though from what I understand, every game system has a void that the most recent villager (who left without being given to someone else) resides.
Then the next time someone visits you who has a plot free (or possibly when you visit them not 100% sure) then the void resident gets assigned to it. That’s why often people will be “where the heck this guy come from?!?”
I would love Hornsby, but I have no room right now and I don’t time travel(yet anyway). I have a couple of villagers who likely will be asking to move at some point as I’ve gotten their photos. Not 100% on who I want as my set up, vs collect photo and let go. I have only driven one away by means that labeled me a monster by my brother.
Meanwhile Clay’s birthday is in October, I just ordered him a Royal Crown for it. Nothing too good for him
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A friend says he’d like to take him in 
So he’s not going to the void just yet…
Anyway how do you get photos from them? I have been unable to figure that out… I’ve been giving them presents and visiting and talking to them all the time. After the photo session at Harv’s I can now order their images from the shop though… sadly some villagers have left previously (Molly, Wendy & Stu) and I never got that far…
This is my first Animal Crossing game and I really don’t know what I am doing with the villagers…
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I always let the animals go. I sort of like to pretend it makes them feel more like real animals rather than something that is purely for my amusement.
Also the excitement of a new animal is always fun.
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This is what happened when Wendy moved out, she ended up on my friend’s island and told her about me… although that was before I started teaching my villagers fun new words and phrases…
So do you just wait who gets assigned to you randomly or do you go to islands and try to get specific ones? Because I’ve met a few on the islands that I wouldn’t want living in my little village. Mostly I avoid those with a cranky personality–also those with deep voices put me off…
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I like the randomness! One time in an old animal crossing we got this grumpy kangaroo called Walt and he became a firm favourite in our house. I guess I don’t trust that I’ll always like what I think I am going to like, if that makes sense.
I think if you let the game take a natural course the game balances the characters so you get a mix. I love bianca but I don’t think id want island with 3 or 4 similar animals.
I get it. I had an open spot and I met Bianca and since I already have Bangle I decided against her because it seemed they would have been more or less the same character. I kind of regretted that though because Bianca is really cute and has a pretty house and I spent another 15 nook tickets or so until I ended up with Alice the koala…
My early villagers were all random:
- Louie–a gorilla who is surprisingly sweet, originally I hoped he’d move out but he’s been nothing but nice, gives me a lot of presents and has taught me most of the reactions I have
- Bob–the cat is really weird (he seems to be quite popular which I don’t quite get…)
- Phoebe–she gets on my nerves sometimes
- Wendy–that sheep is just too quirky, I wasn’t unhappy when she was moved out (via Campsite) and she ended up on a friend’s island.
- Molly, the insecure duckling has also left for deeper ponds… she only stayed on my island for a week before she decided to pack it up. Back then I had no idea what was going on.
- Blanche was the last random that moved in–I had 2 open spots at the time and overlooked the second one, but I like her she’s got style
Then I realized I could have a say in who moved in and started looking for cute ones and sometimes they click and sometimes they don’t:
- Lopez–a deer with style and he’s grown on me despite his arrogance,
- Hornsby–who I took some time to warm up to but he’s really cute and made me smile a lot, I really have no idea why didn’t convince him to stay, the rhinos are so cute and he’s the only one I met so far
- Bangle–love her, I’ll never let her move out. Tiger in a cage… I know I know… of all those on my island right now she’s my absolute favorite
- Kidd–similar to Lopez in many aspects but he manages to get on my nerves a lot more and also he is always pretty arrogant towards other villagers especially Stitches. Last week Kidd wanted to move out and I have no idea why I let him stay…
- Stu–that bull lived in a back alley and drank beer all day long and I wasn’t crying when he left. I guess if one wanted to build like an industrial or big city scenery he would be good to keep because the presents he had were fitting for that.
- Stitches–came via campsite and pushed out Wendy so that was good. That tiny psycho teddy is even weirder than Bob. But he looks so cute in his rainbow colored shirt that I have to smile everytime he does his little Naruto run across the plaza.
- Alice–looks cute but took some time to overcome her shyness, I find “normal” personality villagers are quite difficult to get to know
Overall my hits were balanced out by the misses and I found out I don’t always agree with the internet at large or my friends, who play, about who are good villagers to live with.
So I’ve saved a bunch of Nook tickets for tomorrow… but if I don’t find anyone I may have to resort to random.
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My personal favourites are Rex a gentle lion who likes bugs, Bianca, Agnes this cute black pig, and flurry an adorable mouse bear. My partner really likes all the frog ones - we used to have cousteau (an original one) but he left but we had wart jr so she wasn’t too disappointed.
Isn’t Flurry a hamster? Or is that what you mean with mouse bear?
Anyway, Hornsby (whose German name Rüdiger is just ill-fitting) has moved to my friend’s island successfully and I recruited Apple another mouse bear this morning. I was hesitant because another friend already has her on her island and it feels wrong somehow… but I met her on my third trip out (the other two were Snooty and Becky–who I considered for a few minutes but ended up deciding against her).
I am not sure about Apple but I am never sure about anything relating to these villagers. I discover all kind of weird things about myself in the process of choosing villagers. It is a bit unsettling at times…
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Hamster is probably correct 
I just couldn’t think what animal it was apart from being a small bear. 
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I’ve got another rhino on my island this week-end: Spike, a cranky orange punk It seems he took a liking to me as I could already gift him something today whereas Apple who has been there two days before he moved in still won’t take anything from me… but Spike asked me what kind of music I liked and I must have given an answer he liked (Metal obviously–and that’s nothing but the truth).
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Sadly same poster wise of Felicity’s poster.
There is a friendship point system, fruit is a point, wrapping the gift adds a point, furniture is 2 I think, trash is - point, then it’s more animal specific. Once they reached a certain level there is a chance you get a framed photo. After that eventually they might have a though bubble and ask to leave, like they came to make friends, and they did so time to go somewhere else, make new friends
I love my little hamster bears, I have Flurry, Clay, and Apple. On my Island Apple fits right in, though I have a lot of Peppy personalities, Bunnie and Apple, and Merry.
I didn’t really want another peppy, but 30 nook miles tickets and nothing looked good, and someone had Apple in boxes.
I’m using my brothers Amiibo cards to try and get Bill a jock duck.
Luckily a couple years ago I got him some animal crossing Amiibo cards, and now they come in handy.
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First time I have a good price for turnips and of course it’s in the morning so my friends are asleep or at work and can’t come over 
632 for another 2 hours. In case anyone comes by, here’s the dodo code: BQ9G2
It’s a little busy right now because I’ve put up the island on the turnip.exchange–seeing how many bells I made through the site, I felt it right to give back. Also I’ve already got a few tips from my visitors and I really wanted to know what it is like opening your island like that…
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And it’s been fascinating.
Since I didn’t ever open my island before I had no idea how to edit the queue size and everything so I had the default settings of 4 people at once and 25 queue.
The turnip economy is completely unregulated and wild. You basically give out the dodo code and once people have it you have no control what they do with it. One can change the code by closing and reopening the gates but that takes forever and with a highprice in the morning time for people to get that price is rather limited already without any interruptions due to the horrible networking code.
The turnip exchange FAQ says this about island etiquette:
Islands often add the following rules:
- always leave via airport because otherwise it’ll reset the game for everyone on the island to whatever the last safe state was
- don’t give out the code to other people
- don’t do multiple trips, allow others to sell their turnips as well
- tips are appreciated
So my visitors were on a nice bell curve regarding the above. At the upper end they are quick, do one trip and leave a tip (mostly 99k bells or 1 NT). On the lower end they make multiple trips or give the code to their friends and stay in the queue forever blocking others… luckily I can at least remove them from the queue so the next person can get the code.
I had my island open for 3 hours as an experiment, I had closed off everyting but the shops with fences in an attempt to get people to concentrate on what they were there for (selling turnips).
632 is a rather high price. I think the absolute maximum possible is 660. Even using the exchange my best so far was 599 and usually I get around 450. I always buy one full inventory of turnips and made 2.3 mio bells from turnips and another 2.2 mio bells and 8 nook tickets in tips. Which goes to show the upper end of the bell curve is rather generous seeing how many people don’t tip and how stressful it is to have the island open, I am glad I’ve always left a tip when I used the site.
Nevertheless the people who did repeated trips–I counted up to 4 for one person–were stressing me out. Prices change at noon and I closed my queue around 10:40 or so and that wasn’t enough time to get all 25 remaining people queued through my island because of the lower end of the curve. And that is unfair. And there is nothing I can do about it because the game was never built for this type of thing. All in all I had to pay attention to the game the whole time…
I see this as far more than “just making a few bells in a game”. I used to play the WoW auction house quite a bit years ago and I am fascinated by game economies because they follow their own, often quite different rules. The emergent behaviors and etiquette surrounding these economies are just something that makes me think.
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Fencing off your island has gotten trickier according to my wife (@superjaz), as with the new update, visitors can enter the water from the airport dock, thus swimming around to your fenced off areas. Unless you got the whole island, in which case, nice work!
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I’ve never used the exchange, heard of it though. I don’t think I could do it with kids under foot.
I’m in 2 face book groups, one smaller.
I post there, my price, tips welcome not needed (and maybe a few things I’d like ). And all their Island name (so I can recognize anyone who tries to sneak in by being given a code.
And people post, I message them the dodo.
Sounds like more work then it is because FB messager its pretty fast.
I had 630 today and been on an hour. Maybe 10 trips in. Been gifted a couple clocks, 10 nook tickets and maybe a mil Once I got 5 gold nuggets which was awesome.
I’ve got enough $ in the bank from others letting me sell at an awesome price, and most weeks I get to see shooting stars at least once, so I try to share back when I can.
I need to check if you can swim on others islands but yeah jumping off the airport is possible.
I have to be careful, I have no storage space and lit gold money, stars everywhere
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Well if they jump off the dock they cannot get to the shops, so …
Also there aren’t any areas that should have caused trouble. My stone garden is fenced in separately. As far as I am aware they cannot just take a shovel to your flowers which is what I would be concerned about most (I still haven’t managed blue roses and green whatever those are called)
I’ve been using it on and off. I don’t have facebook anymore and I don’t want to post on reddit. The exchange facilitates an almost anonymous trade which is how I like it
I think people taking advantage of others by going against “etiquette” are doing everyone a disservice and if the percentage of idiots becomes to large it will kill the site… but by and large for now it seems to be working and the non-idiots make up for the idiots.
I had this happen with a visitor today. They rushed and said they accidently went into the water. But I can’t remove fence with visiters present so they were stuck. Sadly like mins before the price change.
I know people who have money trees as decor and or worry about people picking gold flowers, or collecting their rare beach shells or recipes.
I did really well over all, a bit over 2 mil, 10 star pieces, and 11 nook tickets and 6 gold nuggets in about an hour n a half with no tips needed (but welcome) oh and 2 cuckoo clocks.