# Mid-run difficulty changing discussion

**URL:** <https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/mid-run-difficulty-changing-discussion/2684>\
**Category:** λ Half-Life\
**Created:** [July 31, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/mid-run-difficulty-changing-discussion/2684 "2015-07-31T18:53:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![PJC](https://b-cdn.sourceruns.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a587f6/32.png) [@PJC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/u/PJC)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 10:13pm UTC](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/mid-run-difficulty-changing-discussion/2684/11 "2015-08-01T22:13:32Z")

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> [@Maxam](#):
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> To be honest, I don’t think Latest Steam version played on Easy difficulty will ever be a category unless you are free to change difficulties. Nobody will bother with doing the alternate strats to vortiguant boost and certainly nobody would want to go through the level the intended way.

Well, as I suggested in the other thread we could at least set up the category on the leaderboard. If nobody runs it then that’s fine (there are many other games on [speedrun.com](http://speedrun.com) with empty categories), but I think we should at least have the option there, if anything just so people know it’s actually a thing so that they’re given a choice when wanting to submit a run. Besides, all it takes is one person/run to get the ball rolling, someone’s bound to at least show some interest if they know about it.

Not allowing the changing on one version and then allowing it on the other makes the categories unbalanced. Yes, they aren’t competitively comparable but they should be theoretically comparable. To achieve that you need to not apply arbitrary exclusive rules that aren’t related to the category itself. It doesn’t matter if you can use some trick that gives you an advantage. The point is (from save deletion topic):

> [@Should we allow Save Deletion?](https://forums.sourceruns.org/t/should-we-allow-save-deletion/2668/67):
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> it doesn’t make much sense that you can say “this is how fast the game can be done by a human in one sitting” and then say “this is how fast the game can be done by a human in multiple sittings, but with an extra trick allowed” without any real reason.

This applies to all categories in my opinion.

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