When you join a game, the web site will take you to a payment area. This will forward you to PayPal, which handles all the payment transactions. You can use PayPal two ways. For credit cards, you may simply pay using that card without signing up for a PayPal account. If you do not wish to use a credit card, PayPal will accept a checking account, but you must sign up for an account first. More information is available here: (https://www.paypal.com). After your payment is accepted, you will be forwarded to your game home page. Here you will see the game you joined.

If you cannot pay online, you can also send a check for the correct amount to our mailing address (see Contact Us page). Be sure to include with your check your User Name (e-mail address) and the Game Code for the game you need to register for. Also include which Team you should be added to.

This can be accomplished in several ways. If the university or organization that is hosting the game wishes to pay for the students in one lump sum, contact us first and we will guide you through the process of making a PayPal payment. We will then give you a coupon code that allows your students to register for free. You will have access to see who has signed up for your game.

On the other hand, if you need to pay for another student you can do so by using your Paypal account or credit card when they are joining the game under their Dunatos web site account.

To slow the game down, try lowering the starting cash, time per month, and initial cities on the map. To speed the game up, do the opposite. For help on changing the game settings, click here.

Two ways. First you can do it manually by clicking start game or resume game whenever all teams are ready to go. Then you may click pause game or end game when the session is finished.

Secondly, you can set up a schedule automatically.

1. Merger Time - This does not have much effect on the game but simply determines how many minutes teams have to make decisions when two or more products merge.
2. Starting Cash - Too much starting cash will mean that teams don't have to make tough decisions since cash is plentiful, but not enough cash could slow down the game when there isn't enough cash to make any moves. Typically you want to stick with the default values on this setting unless you have the extremes of 4 or 8 teams. If you have less teams then give a little more cash and vice versa.
3. Initial Cities - This will determine how fast the game moves at the beginning since it takes two cities to initiate a product market. If there are initial cities already opened then product markets can be formed immediately. If you reduce this setting then you will want to give a little more starting cash to help teams get started.
4. Time Per Month - This directly correlates with the game speed. In other words, how many real minutes equal one simulated month. We recommend 2 or 3 minutes although you can change this throughout the simulation if you want to slow the game down or speed it up. You have to pause the game first before you change this setting.
5. Bonus Questions - This determines whether or not students get the Bonus Question pop-up every quarter of a year. Changing the reward/penalty amounts determine how big of an impact this feature has on your simulation.
6. Bonus Reward - This is the reward for answering a bonus question correctly.
7. Bonus Penalty - This is the penalty for answering a bonus question incorrectly.