Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25564941-20150403205930/@comment-3225604-20150404030921

Yes, boosters help you pass the level, so it makes the level easier. Therefore, we should not grade difficulty when boosters are used, otherwise it will be unfair to grade difficulty when boosters are used.

It's ok to use boosters because it is sometimes free, but there's a problem when you grade difficulty at the same time using boosters, because we grade difficulty normally without the influence of boosters.

@CrushOn&On We're not discussing whether people should use boosters or not, or the morale involved, but we're discussing whether we should grade difficulty even when we use boosters. Moreover, the problem with using boosters to grade difficulty is that the difficulty scope will be immensely large. The difference between a lollipop hammer used and 5 lollipop hammers used may induce a different difficulty grading. In my opinion, when more boosters are used, the level tends to be harder. However, we don't know if you're just wasting boosters, or using boosters to help you pass the level, or you use them of no avail. There is a huge problem when we use boosters to grade difficulty. In addition, if you have learnt what is a fair test in science at school, the controlled variable is changed when we allow the use of boosters to grade difficulty - we don't know how many boosters are used. In order to have a "fair test" (i.e. fair grading), we need to keep the controlled variable constant. However, as I've said before, how can we achieve a constant controlled variable without disallowing the use of boosters when grading difficulty? Therefore, it's better to grade difficulty without using boosters, or the difficulty grading is unfair.