Outage Instructions

HabitRPG Outage Instructions
Like with any popular website, there may be occasions when the main HabitRPG site is unavailable. Should this happen, instructions and updates will be released via the HabitRPG blog and social media:

http://blog.habitrpg.com/

http://twitter.com/habitrpg



Unplanned Tavern Visit
If the problem lasts for more than several hours, the staff may elect to move all the players to the tavern, thus preventing damage and even character death. You will know that you are there because your avatar's eyes will be closed and there will by three Zs next to your head You can check out using the large green button on the left-hand side of the Tavern page on the website, or from the Settings screen in the app.



Resetting After an Unplanned Tavern Visit
If you the forced tavern move occurred over your cron, you will still have your dailies checked from the day before. As with any other stay in the tavern, your dailies will reset at your next cron. If you would prefer to return to normal operation of the program sooner, you can use the settings to give yourself a fresh day.

Preferred Method
First, make a record of all your Experience (XP),Gold (GP) and streaks. Then untick all your Dailies. This will cause you to lose gold and experience, but you can then go to Settings -> Site where you will find the Fix Character Values button. Clicking on that will lead you to a form that can be use to set your XP and GP back to what they were before you unticked the Dailies. Enter the values you recorded earlier and you will regain the gold and experience you temporarily lost.

Forced Cron
A more risky maneuver is to change your cron so that you can restart your day after the emergency. The upside of this method is that it will allow you to do damage to the boss your party is fighting, the downside is that there is a risk of creating a double cron, or forgetting that you reset it.

To force a cron, first make a record of all your Experience (XP), Gold (GP), and Streaks. Go to Settings and adjust the Custom Day Start line to a time in the future. Because your computer's clock may not be in synch with the HabitRPG clock, make sure that you allow some buffer around the time you choose. After that time has passed (again, give yourself a buffer), open HabitRPG and check to see if your dailies have reset. You may need to reload the game or press a habit to trigger the reset. Once it is obvious that cron has occurred, you can return to the Settings menu and change the time back to what it was previously (for most people this will be 0 for midnight).



If something goes wrong during the forced cron, use the values you recorded before you started to return your game to where it was before you tried to force a cron.

