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A life improvement RPG app

Discussion in 'Self Improvement' started by doctor_warren, Dec 5, 2015.

  1. doctor_warren

    doctor_warren Fapstronaut

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    It's called habitica, and it turns life improvement into an RPG game.

    It allows you to keep track of your "dailies" (things you must do daily), to do list and your habits, collectively known as tasks. Completing any of these things gives you EXP (experience points, so that you level up) and gold (to buy things). Not completing dailies, to-do-list things that you were supposed to do or committing to bad habits means you lose health points. You can also set the difficulty of each task so that some are more rewarding, and some are less. Also, when you fail to do do a daily too often, or if you continuously commit to a bad habit, the penalty on your health becomes even worse. Tasks completed become closer to look colored blue as you do them more often, and tasks failed often become red, and penalize you harder.

    You can spend your gold on either weapons, armors and health potions. Or you can make custom rewards, for example, playing video games for an hour, and you can set the price of doing that.

    Once you play till level 10 (i'm level 3 currently), you are introduced to the class system, where you can choose to be a mage, warrior, rogue (think thief) or healer, each with his/her own speciality skills. It's all up to you on how you do it, and your class can affect your strategy. See http://habitica.wikia.com/wiki/Class_System for more details.


    Now here's the fun part, Parties. You can play with groups of friends together as a party of adventurers and gain even more rewards and adventure. I'm not 100% clear on how it works, but you can undertake quests, which all revolve around completing your tasks, and you have to use teamwork and keep eachother accountable, unless you'd like to fail quests. There are also boss battles and special events that happen, and it's all really fun. From a game perspective and from a life improvement perspective.

    You can also die in the game, from failing too much. There also pets in the game

    Hopefully some of you check it out, and perhaps play. If anyone is really into it, message me on kik @doctorwarren / @doctor_warren or just text me @[email protected] and we can be AP partners and be a party together.

    Cheers!

    http://habitica.wikia.com/wiki/Equipment
    http://habitica.wikia.com/wiki/
     
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  2. nfprogress

    nfprogress Fapstronaut

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    Thanks for sharing this. I created an account and have joined a few guilds. I tend to thrive on challenges and habitica looks like the right way to implement habit formation and goal achievement. I definitely don't mind being able to put those long warcraft hours to good use finally! That embarrassingly high days played count will finally amount to something constructive in my life (beyond hoarding gold!). They better make me a lock before I hit level 10. Mages are too squishy for my taste!
     
  3. doctor_warren

    doctor_warren Fapstronaut

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    Party up with me! Mail me your username (or whatever it is that people use to create parties haha)
     
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    nfprogress Fapstronaut

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    I am MysticRiver over on habitica. I don't normally get that username as people tend to take it fast. I think habitica is fairly new. For right now, I'd like to lurk awhile and stay solo without partying up. For professional reasons, I will likely keep my nofap journey here and use habitica to pursue intellectual learning goals. Out of curiosity, what are you planning to use habitica for primarily? Interestingly there is a porn recovery guild over there, but from what I can tell, it is a public place and the terms of service make it more restrictive than nofap.

    Depending on your proclivities, you may wish to join a party with many active participants. People who tend to be more convivial and gregarious take that route. I am surmising that you haven't played wow for years? The party system is almost certainly modeled after wow parties and that can give you more perspective as to what they are like.
     
  5. doctor_warren

    doctor_warren Fapstronaut

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    I have never used parties, but ideally i'd like a party with close communication with a size of about 4-6.
    I'm using it to keep track of things I should be doing to attain my goals, such as taking fish oil tablets or studying Arabic on the bus
     

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