Cheating

"Cheating" in HabitRPG is a matter of opinion and circumstance. One person may feel it's cheating to list things like getting out of bed and brushing teeth, another person may need those Dailies for motivation or reminders. One person might have a Daily for an hour of study, another might have a Daily for any studying at all. And one person might prefer to keep doing Dailies while sick, but another might check into the Inn (or grey out Dailies) at the first sniffle.

That's all fine. HabitRPG is here to help players learn good habits (and unlearn bad ones), not to stress them out and make them feel guilty. The right way to play is however is most productive for you.

To that end, "problem cheating" would be any dishonest play that keeps you from being productive (possibly rewarding you as though you had been).

Cheating Yourself
HabitRPG is not a traditional game. There are no high scores. You are playing against yourself, against the version of you who you don't want to be. Therefore, the following methods of problem-cheating only hurt your own efforts to improve.
 * Using Fix Character Values to give yourself extra levels or gold
 * Clicking things you didn't do
 * Giving yourself habits like "breathing"
 * Greying dailies out for no reason

Wanting to get to a high level
Alternative: Take the time to earn it yourself! Let's be honest: Since Fix Character Values exists, hitting a high level in a short time doesn't impress anyone.

Don't want character/partymates to die
Alternatives:
 * If you're near leveling up, look for any Dailies, To-Dos or good Habits you can complete easily. When you level, you'll regain health.
 * Take a look at the User Data Display Tool and see what dailies will do the most damage, and focus on those.
 * If you're in a party with a healer, ask for healing.
 * Use a Health Potion. If you can't afford one, consider selling your excess Eggs, Hatching Potions, or Food to get enough gold.
 * Warn the others in your party: They may be able to gain enough health to protect themselves from your damage.

Burned out, no motivation to do dailies
Alternatives:
 * Reduce your number of Dailies, perhaps greying some out or moving them to Habits
 * Use a Fortify Potion if your tasks have gone red. This will return them to yellow, making them less damaging (and less threatening looking). You can get a similar effect by deleting and remaking tasks, but you will lose your task history.
 * Take a look at the Burnout article for additional advice.

Picking self up after cheating
If you've been cheating, and you've decided to not cheat, that's great. You don't have to do anything else! But if it would be more motivating to you, you can use Fix Character Values to remove the gold and levels you gained, or even look at options for starting over.

Cheating at challenges
Since many Challenges are competitions, checking off things you haven't done in a Challenge is actually cheating against other people. Many challenge creators will look at their challenge data to weed out obvious cheaters or include tasks like declaring progress in Tavern chat or specific Guilds.

If you're joining a Challenge to cheat in an attempt to get free Gems, remember, they don't provide anything that isn't cosmetic (Backgrounds, hair colors) or obtainable by other means (partying with someone who is providing quest scrolls). You can also get Gems by contributing to HabitRPG, and some guilds may have smaller Challenges you can complete honestly.