New Horizons is actually the very forgiving in the Animal Crossing Items show as far as leaving for an extended period of time goes. Villagers will remark that its been a while, then return to their routine dialog. Flowers do not expire anymore, and villagers can not leave without your acceptance. Worst you will see are weeds and roaches, which don't take long to eliminate.

Except for Baarbara. She straight up told me she was leaving! I really like her so much I immediately closed my match so she would not leave lol. I don't even take the opportunity with the thought bubble.They appear in your house when you are away for a certain timeframe. You walk over them to kill them. They are not catchable.

Haven't played since might. Logged back in yesterday and experienced the roaches. Spent 5 minutes trying to locate my web until I recalled you could not have your internet equipped in the Home

Weeds do not grow back at the same rate as previous games also, I have noticed. I went months without playing and there were only a small handful to wash up, took no time at all. Normally they are everywhere.There's a max limit to weeds and after it is hit they just stay the way they are until some get picked iirc.

Great point, but man... When I was 10 years old this game was such a pressure machine. I had to check every night that my favorite villagers were not departing, and I remember crying and getting angry if somebody I enjoyed left. I even forced my mom to look at some times when I forgot my DS.Geez I stressed me out with New Leaf which was why I stopped playing it and made me hesitant for New Horizon but..now I know. .

I concur , that stress is what eventually made me quit enjoying Wild World, once I realized that in order to keep my town"living" I needed to become a servant to it, which put me off from the whole series all the way until this game, where those things are more relaxed.Another method is having an amiibo/getting lucky and having a new villager camp on your island. It's a modest cheaty though. When you eventually persuade them (after hours of playing that frickin card game) and they ask to kick someone out, keep reloading the game (go into the dashboard without causing the dialogue and cheap Animal Crossing Bells shut the match without saving) until they suggest the one you want . If I'm not making sense, you will find guides online that describe this better than me