# Does changing the score values apply historically?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-changing-the-score-values-apply-historically/308455
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** gamification
**Created:** [May 10, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-changing-the-score-values-apply-historically/308455 "2024-05-10T14:28:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@colin.mckibben](https://meta.discourse.org/u/colin.mckibben)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-changing-the-score-values-apply-historically/308455/1 "2024-05-10T14:28:51Z")
Does changing the values for gamification scores alter the score values for all events for a user, or does it only apply to new scorable events going forward? For example, if a user has 10 solutions over the course of a year, and the original value for a solution is 10 points, they should have 100 points over the year. If I then change the solution value to 5, will that cause their points to drop to 50 for the year, or will that point change only apply to new solutions?
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-changing-the-score-values-apply-historically/308455/2 "2024-05-10T17:56:32Z")
It will only apply to new solutions/posts/likes/etc, but you can recalculate the scores from the Gamification tab to recount everything at the new values.
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### Author:  [@colin.mckibben](https://meta.discourse.org/u/colin.mckibben)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-changing-the-score-values-apply-historically/308455/3 "2024-05-10T19:54:51Z")
Thank you for confirming @JammyDodger . We end up recalculating gamification when we merge user accounts anyway, so it’s only a matter of time before the new point values are applied for all previous events.
I was hoping the gamification plugin would leave the old point values in tact even if there was a recalculation, but it looks like we need to figure out another way to preserve the old points.
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### Author:  [@colin.mckibben](https://meta.discourse.org/u/colin.mckibben)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2024, 3:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-changing-the-score-values-apply-historically/308455/4 "2024-05-17T15:46:34Z")
> [@colin.mckibben](#):
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> I was hoping the gamification plugin would leave the old point values in tact even if there was a recalculation, but it looks like we need to figure out another way to preserve the old points.
I have posted a doc on how we accomplished this process.
> [@How to adjust gamification points without retroactively updating point values for old score-able actions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-adjust-gamification-points-without-retroactively-updating-point-values-for-old-score-able-actions/308447):
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> Problem statement If you use the [Discourse Gamification Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gamification-plugin/225916) to award users points for contributing to your community, you may have come across a need to adjust point values based on emerging trends. In the [SailPoint Developer Community](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss), we use the Gamification Plugin to power our [Ambassador program](https://developer.sailpoint.com/ambassadors/). Users who make valuable contributions to our community earn points which in turn are used to determine the level of perks they receive. As our community has grown and the number of contributions…
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-changing-the-score-values-apply-historically/308455/5 "2024-06-16T15:47:04Z")
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