Board Thread:Q & A/@comment-184.186.9.168-20140116061338/@comment-69.180.193.250-20150402074202

Yep. Just started today already am thinking of switching to Habit Bull and giving them my money instead. Custom daily start time is still marked experimental, and clearly is causing folks troubles, so I'll not go that route.

I think the developers should simply delay all system RPG-related updates for everyone by 24 hours, giving everyone 24-hours past the start of a new day to make sure the previous day's activity is correctly reported. If users complain because they are getting less immediate gratification, I respectfully think they should go elsewhere. RPG is secondary to accurate and useful tracking of habit development. Changing habits is hard, and that is supposed to be the primary focus. The gaming aspect, which drew me here, should just work, and users should not have conform themselves to the software, but the other way around.

MAKING USERS CONFIRM TO THE SOFTWARE IS A VERY BAD HABIT! [1]  I vote we add  "DON'T EXPECT USERS TO CONFORM TO US" to the developers' dailies! :) :)

[1] I'm not speaking w/o experience here. I have 25+ years of advanced software engineering (M.S. level), and am soon to complete my Ph.D. in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. I see this all the time: Developers are a different breed, and they routinely are so imbued in the technical design and development process they lose sight that machines and software ought confirm to people, not the other way around. That said, I suspect Habit RPG has been built upon an existing RPG, making the changes people have suggested hard. However, simply delaying the RPG's "clock" by 24 hours ought be possible, and relativey straightforward, provided the developers have developed and are following a sound modular design. [Apologies for the rant. Being both a psychologist and computer scientists, the habit in my industry of telling users they have to conform to the software, esp. about important things, is one of my pet peeves. :) ]