I love that idea! I could definitely use that for after I get to 50 official EEs.


I did. I found your strategy to be very interesting and entertaining.

My strategy to making EEs is to fall in love with a villager first. They have to be pretty/handsome and unique. In my current tribe, I’ve only had three EEs which those basic principles did not apply.

Once I find a pretty/handsome and unique villager (I do it spontaneously, it’s not something I force myself to do), I make a mental note of what skills I would prefer them to learn. Usually, I start with their given skills that they got from their parents. I usually try to do the slower skills first or second. From my experience, Building, Parenting, and Healing take a while to master, so I try to get those done for the first or second skill to master. The third skill tends to be something faster that I’m pretty sure they will master by the end of their life, which would be Farming and Research. Most of my EEs are elderly or close to it when they get their totems.

Sometimes I don’t care if a villager is pretty/handsome and unique. When I see that they like work or learning, I vaguely plant the idea of having them become EEs. But most of the EEs in my current village are part of my beauty and individuality requirements.

I also sometimes fall in love with a villager late in life, so I have to scramble to get them to master their skills before they die. I don’t always succeed, but I tend to remember some of them even without them being EEs. In fact, several of my memorable villagers were not EEs.