Daily Check-In Incentives

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I wanted to let you know about a fun new feature that's going to be launching soon, since you'll probably see questions about it. In an upcoming release, Habitica will start offering Daily Check-In Incentives!

The idea is that Habitica has lots of fun things that encourage checking in consecutively, like streaks, but we don't have so many things that encourage checking in after you've missed a day (or two or three or fifty). Hence, daily check-in incentives.

Every day that you check in to Habitica, regardless of whether or not you're in the inn, your check-in counter goes up, which often unlocks a special prize. The prizes will be things like special equipment, new quest scrolls, food, unique hatching potions, etc. They'll start out being awarded more frequently and get more gradual, but every day the check-in counter will go up. (It will never be reset or lost.)

The check-in incentives won't be retroactive, so they'll only start counting forward after the feature goes live, and they'll work on both web and mobile. Also, the day count will be determined by cron. (Don't worry, we'll have measures in place to prevent people from changing their cron all the time to cheat the system.)

The check-in point (and prize, when appropriate) is given to you when cron runs. When you get a prize, you'll see a notification that tells you how many times you've checked in, what your prize is, and when your next check-in prize will be available.

Right now we've built out prizes for the first 50 check-ins, since that gives us some considerable buffer time to create the other ones.

Prizes:

Day 0: Mini-Quest: Feral Dust Bunnies. Awarded after set-up. Tells people about the Daily incentive. (Eventually, we want this to be themed based on the tasks that they chose. At the beginning, however, everyone gets the Feral Dust Bunnies.)

Day 1: Bardic Robes

Day 2: Flat-colored backgrounds

Day 3: Bardic Cap

Day 4: Purple Hatching Potion

Day 5: Meat, Chocolate, Pink Cotton Candy

Day 7: First quest in the Moon Questline

Day 10: Purple Hatching Potion

Day 14: Strawberry, Potato, Blue Cotton Candy

Day 18: Bard Instrument

Day 22: Second quest in the Moon Questline

Day 26: Purple Hatching Potion

Day 30: Fish, Milk, Rotten Meat, Honey

Day 35: Purple Hatching Potion

Day 40: Third + Final quest in the Moon Questline

Day 45: Purple Hatching Potion

Day 50: Saddle