Kicking Townies versus Friendship bracelet

[Raydar Raynubis]

I know the Devs have said that soon we will be able to kick townies out. I have been thinking about that and here are some concerns I have.

All most all of my townies have friendship bracelets. I gave them each one, not just because I like them, but to find them so that I can complete requests etc. But my townies all having friendship bracelets made me think of kicking out a townie, WITH a friendship bracelet.

When we kick out a townie, that has a friendship bracelet, several things COULD happen, depending on how the Devs implement the kicking procedure. Will the townie give the friendship bracelet back to you, like you breaking up with your boyfriend? That way we could use it again and not loose a resource. Or will they keep it and we will still be able to track them all over the world? Or will it disappear with no mention? Will we have an option, when we kick them, for them to keep it and be tracked or give it back maybe?
If the ex townie keeps it, and they are able to be tracked not living in town, this would open up the possibility of getting critters to live in town, friending them to the point of giving them a friendship bracelet, just to kick them, rinse and repeat, so that eventually you could theoretically track all of the NPCs in the world. I personally think that this would be a GREAT thing to implement. AND while I am thinking, It would be nice to have the ability to go up to any NPC that has a friendship bracelet, and ask for it back. If we could do that, then that would greatly simplify any issues that might arise from ex townies having them, if any players out there do not want that.

AND one more thought, concerning kicking out townies, does their Heart LIke Meter, get reset, almost like we insulted them or something, or does that level of hearts stay with them, in case we re populate the town with them again, would the Heart level be where it was at, or would we have to start all over again wooooing them from scratch?

DEVS if you are reading this, I would LOVE if we had the option for the ex townies to keep the friendship bracelets, for them to be trackable all over the world, AND give us the option to ask any NPC for it back at any time. Just my opinion. What do the rest of you fellow players out there think about all of this?

[Raydar Raynubis]

TLDR for those that do not want to read my OP.

Basically I was talking about when we get the ability to kick townies out, what happens to the Friendship Bracelets that we gave them? Does the critter give it back, does it dissolve and we loose a resource, can the critter keep it and we can still track them, etc? Many possibilities, depending on how the Dev's implement this.

So, what do all of you fellow players out there think about this? What would you like to see happen?

[Queen Droxxanna]

there is also the question as to where they would go if we kick them from CC island, do they become tourists again, or will we be able to sent them to other islands that will open up later as well. Or could we give them a tent and banish them to hotter tropics to live near the volcano?
I actually like the look of tents on the beach and want to leave some critters living on the beach, so if we kick them from town will they be able to pitch the tent we gave them when they first arrived back on the beach for a while or until the next tour boat arrives to take them away.

[SKLNDR]

And along all that.... do we get resources back from their houses? Would we have to rebuild any when we kick them? Would they still have the house incase they come back? just curious about these things also... thx

[Lombax369]

Originally posted by NAK:

And along all that.... do we get resources back from their houses? Would we have to rebuild any when we kick them? Would they still have the house incase they come back? just curious about these things also... thx

I'd say the easiest way to do it, programming wise, would be for the houses to remain refurbished & simply become empty.
Then when you next bring a new Critter, they'll skip the whole Tent-on-the-Beach process & just run straight to the empty house* at which point talking to them has them ask you whether they should live there, if you say yes they'll simply move in, skipping the refurbishment process.

*If there are multiple houses available, that just means they can run to a different one if you don't want them living in a particular spot, just like in the first instance of populating the town.