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In this page you will find an overview of the main decisions you must make and what to pay attention to while playing Strategy with a Beer.

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See below the main attributes of each of the pages withing the game:

Overview Page: an overview of the game up to now

• A summary o what happened in the previous turn (how many bottles you sold, how much stock you had left and how was your price and reputation positioning)

• A ranking showing how you compare to the other players in the game (your brand always shows up in red!)

Dashboard Page: graphs that show you in detail your performance so far and how it compares to your competitors

• Essentials are the most important graphs. Here you can see how much money you made versus your competitors and how your price and reputation compares to theirs (in the Price ve Reputation graph, the dark dot in the end of each line indicates the current price and reputation while the other end of the line indicates how it was previously)

• vs Competitors allows you to compare how your sales ($), sales (bottles) and Price compares to your competitors over the whole course of the game

• Your business shows you how your business is doing. You can see your total revenue, total cost, advertisement spend, reputation, quality, production and inventory

Brewery Page: decisions regarding your brewery

• Quantity: decide your factory's capacity (by clicking on the + and - buttons) and utilization (by using the slider)

• Quality: decide your factory's quality capacity (the number of stars, meaning the highest possible quality that your factory can produce) and quality utilization (the number of filled stars, meaning the quality that you are actually going to produce)

• Efficiency: decide how much you wnat to invest in efficiency. The more you invest, the less it costs you to produce each bottle of beer

Marketing Page: marketing decisions

• Advertisement: decide how much you would like to invest in advertisement, the more you invest, the higher your reputation will be and the more beer you will sell

• Price: decide how you would like to price your beer. Remember that the higher the price, the more difficult it is to seel your beer. You can increase your chances of selling more expensive beer by increasing quality of advertisement

Submit: Review and submit your decisions for this turn

• Cash: Previous Turn: Explains what happened from the end of last turn (how much cash you had when you submitted last time) and what happened after you submitted (how much money you made by selling beer and how much it costed you to hold your inventory). This adds up to how much money you had in the beginning of the current turn

• Cash: Current Turn: Shows what you decided to do with your money in the current turn. The sources of expenses are: investment (in capacity expansion, quality expansion and efficiency improvement), production costs and advertisement. This adds up to how much money you have in the current turn, before submitting your decisions

• Turn decisions: Summarizes your main decisions in this turn. Shows you how you are pricing your beer, what is your reputation and how many bottles youhave to sell (adding up what you had in stock and what you are going to produce).