For Animal Farmers and Animal Regulators

The image below is used by both Animal Farmers and Animal Farmer Regulators to track their progress. It is a good summary of your overall performance in the Economic and Environmental aspects of the game. Similarly, the Life Goal Score box is the most straightforward evaluation of your game play.

My Budget:This line graph tracks your personal budget throughout the game play. Use it to track trends. What decisions caused you to make or lose money?

Bay Health:This line graph tracks the Bay's health throughout the game play. It is given as a % value, and starts at 60. This number is most affected by increases and decreases in the Nitrogen and Phosphorus levels.

Life Goal Score: This is the most important part of your evaluation. This compares your current Economic, Environmental, and Social (Quality of Life) scores with your goals. Your goals are the values you entered during the first round of game play (unless you are the regulator; in that case, your Life Goals are the averages of the farmers' in your watershed). Your overall Life Goal Score is calculated by finding the difference between each target and actual score, and adding them all up. This value is subtracted from a max score, and scaled to a 100 point system. A score of 100 means you've matched all your goals perfectly! Aim for a 90 or higher!

For Animal Farmers

If your priority is:

• Economic: You want to invest in buying more animals. Options like sustainable farming, covered waste, and ESPECIALLY nutrient removal will cost you money. Only switch to these if your regulator has taxed the original options too heavily, or has offered large incentives on the new ones.

• Environmental: You do not want to buy more animals, as they will only increase the number of nutrients going into the bay. Switch to sustainable farming and covered nutrient storage as soon as possible, and add nutrient removal once you can afford it.

• Social (Quality of Life): This is the most difficult score to control as an animal farmer. It is based on how the watershed is doing as a whole. Unemployment and poor ratings will decide this score, so work to maintain low market prices of food but keep the bay healthy by slowly moving to sustainability.

For Animal Regulators

If your priority is:

• Economic: Maximizing taxes and minimizing incentives will help you make money. However, as the regulator you have a large budget, so avoid making extreme economic decisions. They may hurt the environment and will cause your social scores to plummet (as the citizens respond with low ratings).

• Environmental: By taxing conventional farming and regular waste storage, you can encourage your famers to switch to more environmentally friendly options in the game. Similarly, you can incentivize sustainable farming, covered storage, and nutrient removal, to make them more attractive options. Once the farmers have switched to these, the Bay health may improve and your environmental score will go up.

• Social (Quality of Life): The best way to improve this score is to respond to your famers' wishes. If they're in debt, decrease taxes and raise incentives. Once they're happy, they'll increase their "Quality of Life" ratings, which will increase your score!