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by DevAccount 5037 days ago
Looks like a good start buddy. Looks like this life game I shamefully only made use of for a few days; http://www.rexbox.co.uk/epicwin/

How are you going to stop people from just deleting tasks they couldn't do?

Keep it up!

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Oh wow, don't know how I missed EpicWin... searched high and low before deciding to make it myself. Looks like an incredible app - I'll have to borrow an iPhone & try it out.

As far as deleting tasks they can't do - it's an honor system because you're only cheating yourself. It's like ticking ever day on Joe's Goals to pretend you have a habit streak, or entering broccoli for every meal in MyFitnessPal - defeats the purpose. However, let's say someone is level 10 with good weapons/armor, and they're struggling under a few goals. They could just delete those goals and recreate them for a clean slate. The downside here is that they lose all their historical data on those goals (it keeps a history graph of your progress), so there's some incentive to use Re-roll instead (or to just be accountable).

Now, once I get some 3rd-party productivity app integration (Pivotal Tracker, MyFitnessPal, RescueTime, etc) - those goals will be static (they can't edit them), and will be updated automatically. So that will lock them down a bit more. I'm planning on Pivotal & Pomodoro very soon.

Thanks for checking it out DevAccount!

A la your question, I added this commit to prevent deleting long-standing red tasks: http://goo.gl/Wc6Yr . Thanks again for the input
Ah, I see some of these apps doc you points for deleting tasks. I'll look into that after all