I just watched the game and eles pop reachs a max of approx 50 eles with just approx 50 vils and 50 trade carts. And reachs this max over the end of a won game… My point is… if your eles are durable, you don’t need to sustain a 60 eles production…
Maybe not 2 pop, but at least 1.5 to balance them on TG and post imp games