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					Originally Posted by photon  Two eh?!  Hm.. that's a lot of trees to shake though still.  I guess I could deforest some but I kinda prefer the natural look to the island (I probably won't hit 5 stars ever) | 
	
 
Could always replace most of the trees with fruit trees. You won't get furniture from fruit trees apparently. 
I only shake about 10-20 trees now to find my furniture and have a whole boatload of trees - mostly fruit. 
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					Originally Posted by photon  Finally had Redd come back to my island for the first time since he first came.  I don't know if that's going to be normal | 
	
 
Someone apparently cracked the code on how the vendor NPCs appear. 
Leif, Kicks, and Sahara are guaranteed to show up once a week (if your criteria are met). Which leaves two weekdays to that will randomly be filled with Gulliver, Label, CJ, Flick, or Redd. (Weekends are always Daisy-Mae and KK). Any ones that didn't visit during the week have a higher chance of visiting the following week. 
Personally the guaranteed ones bug me. Leif I don't really care about and I'd rather his stuff just show up at Nooks after he visits. Kicks only has 5 items at a time and nothing overly exciting. 
I've missed Gulliver 3 times before I knew what to do with him and haven't seen him since. I have 100 bugs in storage waiting for Flick, and an empty art gallery. 
I also discovered you can't sell to Flick or CJ on someone else's island, which also bugs me. 
Side note: If you do create multiple profiles for art and such, note that Sahara's offerings will be the same for all profiles, with the exception of whatever you get trading tickets.