so with going elf mystic to start, and going right into for, grow to 600 acres, and run 30% homes and 30% guilds, 8% farms, the rest you can build into econ buildings or training buildings. and throw in some towers. the 30% homes boosts your poppa to 28. i try to run equal parts dspec:elites and my end results with 33% homes and max pop science gets about 32 poppa. with 5wpa 4tpa 7.5 dspec 7.5 epa and about 8ppa.