It is hard to find places for the totems....how about small idols to be placed on an inlaid table by the reasearch area, and once you have 10 (or any preset number of creator's choice) something happens....perhaps extra population allowance, or higher birth rates per pregancy so more are working, but population grows or decreasing the time it takes for crops to grow) Once the table is full, the idols or icons dissappear and you fill it up again for some other good thing ....The totems are getting a bit deep in VV2