I am raising this suggestion because effective today, several players, including me, are reporting that the Sweet Cinema is no longer offering the Free Switch booster. The two affected boosters are eithre replaced by the Jelly Fish (which also needs to be reworked), or even worse, with X's where each board only offers ten out of sixteen boosters.
Thank you @QueenB for pointing out that "The team is working on a simpler set of boosters that are easier to understand and more powerful in clear moments." (see link)
From that text, I can spot numerous inconsistencies:
- The hand booster is considered a less powerful booster than both the UFO and the Party Booster, and has a wide set of use cases.
- For example, creating another color bomb while the player is short of moves, but have an arrangement of five candies that can be switched to form a color bomb.
- A small number of ingredients levels have "stuck zones" or even "dead zones" where the hand booster should or must be used lest the player end up unwinnable.
- The Striped Brush is the lowest-value but also the rarest of the bottom-row boosters to obtain. From "for example row/column clear," it is clear that the Striped Brush is to be promoted in importance.
- The Striped Brush can be used to convert any special candy into a combo.
- I have personally used Striped Brushes over UFOs and Party Boosters to clear levels when I was otherwise going to lose by a small margin.
- I have also pre-emptively used Striped Brushes when I have created a colour bomb to clear more candies and blockers.
- For over one year, the fish booster is made redundant, as permanent Fishing Season has been implemented.
- I would propose that the fish boosters should be reworked, but not exactly like the sequels. This is Candy Crush, and we still want some distinction from the sequels.
- The hand booster is systematically being removed from almost all events, not just Sweet Cinema (which would make it farmable).
I hope the team would be able to keep the ten boosters while making it reasonably uncommon to obtain in normal free gameplay.
