I have a non-algae related question but didn't know where to post it...so I picked here...

females stop breeding at 50, when do males stop?

Also, what's the significance behind the different totem styles? I mean, what determines which totem you get? I'm trying to see if the first mastered skill makes a difference but I don't know...Thanks for any help.

Males never stop breeding, alot like real life lol, the different designs in totems is just to make things nicer around the village. if you got the exact same totem for all your elders it would look really boring dont you think, and many of us have tried in vain to figure out how its determined what totem is given to whom, but alas, only thing i could come up with is the totem is given to a villager at birth at random and its up to you to get it out of them. ive finished several villages and never had the same ammount of each totem in any of them, its always a different ammount, first game one of the totem designs only showed up once, where as another design i got 12 of them. so who knows but the desingers and their not talking.

Males dont stop ... They can go on fathering children right up to just before they die.

There's no particular significance to the different totems. It seems a matter of luck which one will appear. In my first game I got the same totem four times in a row and thought that perhaps there was only one design until the fifth turned out to be different. In my second game the first five totems were all different.

Hm! Okay, thanks so much for the replies. The comment about males breeding...like in real life was pretty funny. Haha. That bit of info will help out. I had been trying to set elderly villagers on parenting just to get to esteemed elder status and had a few village population booms! Now I know why. Haha.

I too, was trying to figure out a pattern to totem distributions but no luck yet. I think the idea that each villager is assigned one at birth is a good and probable thought.

Thanks again!