Veronica Crossing’s “Town Sustainability guide”!

(aka how to make sure no one moves even if you only have time to play a few times a week!)

Hi guys! For the past several months I’ve been in school, which doesn’t leave me a lot of time to manage my AC town. This technique allows me to play only once or twice a week, while being sure that the days i’m not playing, no one will be asking to move! So I figured I’d share it with you all.

This guide can be used in conjunction with a guide posted by CoveCrossing … however that user seems to have deleted their blog. I’ve uploaded their post in plain text here, so you can all still view it if you so choose.





Step one:Find someone who is ready to move.

The first step of this process is finding someone who’s ready to move out. Let them ping you and tell you they want to leave. The reason you’re using this guide implies you want to keep all your villagers where they are, so tell them not to move.

Make a record of TODAYS DATE, and THEIR MOVE DATE. Both of these things are important later.

For this example, Eugene told me on February 3rd that he wanted to move on February 8th.

Step two:Go about your life!

You can rest easy until the mid point between your two dates. Most likely, no one new will leave before the last persons projected move date (In this example, Feb 8th) but I’ve usually checked beforehand, just to be safe.

Step three: On the middle date, check your town.



When you have about two days before the last projected move date (Feb 6th in this example), go into your town. Walk around. Hopefully someone new will ask to move. If not, check back the next day.

Here’s a handy little calendar to illustrate what I’m talking about.





Extra Notes

If a villager is sick, no one will ask to move (In my experience). This has been disproved!



This has been disproved! Events can also delay the process a bit or make it harder (villagers will not use the gossip dialogue so readily if there is an event coming up. )



Hope this helps you all!! Feel free to let me know of any tips you have to help me refine this guide!





Also, check out this great comment by reddit user Googie2149! It explains the mechanics of ACNL, and how you can leave your town for weeks un touched, if you wanted :)