Board Thread:The Gatehouse/@comment-70.188.139.186-20140301211000/@comment-208.102.60.83-20140512163118

I've only been using HabitRPG for a couple of weeks, so I may change my mind on this as time goes by. But I'd been thinking about this problem this morning. The thing is, if I got the maximum reward for doing something soon after adding it, I personally would be tempted to not add things until I'd already done them or was about to do them, so I could check them off immediately. Which would defeat the purpose of having a to do list, really. But I also agree that it doesn't make sense to reward procrastination.

Maybe a combo of grey to dos and due dates would help. When you add a to do, you either choose a due date (or, rather than a date, something like "today" "a week from now" or "a month from now" etc) or if there's no due date then it's grey. Grey to dos give less reward than dated to dos, but never inflict damage. Dated to dos increase in value until the due date, then start inflicting damage. So you might get rewarded for procrastinating a little, but if you're not careful you'll get in trouble.