Incredibly hard to get three star in level 479

Helloezyy,

I'm afraid it's by design... now, yes. Pretty sure it's an unforeseen design flaw though, as this wasn't the case until 2nd half of 2022 when they broke the scoring system and possibly amended star requirements too. As you can see, I have 3 stars on this level played many years ago.

My supposed high score is barely enough for 1 star now. lol

I played it again. This time with quite a few boosters in order to clear it with as few moves as possible. I used even a Party Booster. For science, of course. 😅 A relatively new player is not supposed to do that though. Anyway, got 298,680 points which were enough for just 2 stars. Obviously, something is not right. There is some even lower level (level 16, I think 🤔) that is literally impossible to pass with 3 stars unless you clear it with 0 moves, i.e. only with boosters. lol

Removing points from matching candies needs to be undone, in my opinion.

Yo ho ho,

Have no mercy for that "Helpful" button under my previous post, buddy. 😁

Yes, you should definitely overlook that episode. Stars make no difference whatsoever if you're not at the very end of the map - no-one will know you had 3 stars, nor will you be scrolling back thousands of levels to look at them, I promise you that. 😅

N-joy! o/