Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25564941-20150403205930/@comment-3225604-20150404093223

CrushOn&amp;On wrote: Wildoneshelper wrote: 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.

Agree to the difficulty rating, but as I said (probably going of on a tangent here) if the information is there and made available then it is up too the user as to whether they should use it or not, when the ratings are taken into consideration, if boosters have been used then these can be ignored and only the pure unadulterated booster free review can be taken into account when judging difficulty, this does not change anything, all that has been added is a booster+ comment and extra info for the user. We still have to rely on everyones honesty! like those we both know use cheats but does not stop them commenting on difficulty...........

Crish O&O ;-)

And that's why I suggest accepting one's opinions of grading difficulty when a reason is given. Sadly, this makes grading the difficulty more complicated as "claimed by several users". Well, there's a necessity to do that for one.