Thanks, for no more horseless games. Install instructions?

according to Heavenfall's thread, i believe you can:

Extract the files to your Elemental/Mods folder (to find that, open impulse and rightclick Elemental and choose "Open Application Folder"

@Botjer: That's the beauty of mods, you can use them or not, your choice

@Habadacus: I prefer in My Documents -> My Games -> Elemental -> <pick a folder>

This way you don't need to worry about permissions.  I'm putting different mods in different folders, so far, the fix mods are in Effects, Gnilberts are in items. with mine in Race.  It doesn't matter wher they go, but be aware that ANY file in these folders are opened and read by the game, so backup copies (even named .xml.bak) need to be moved out of the elemental folder.

Precisely

You do know the "side effects". If you pick one then your going to start with either a Gold mine, Fertile Land, Crystal Mine, Lost Library (Tech Research), Ancient Temple (Arcane Research), Old Forest (Materials), Wild Horses, Wild Wargs, Scenic View (Influence) and Refugee Camp (Population/housing). If you asking if it's perfectly balanced and doesn't disrupt the game then you should test his mod and report your feedback.

Modding isn't a perfect science, it's like research and development which requires testing and feedback. Thus, we need people to play the mods and see what is good and what isn't. Besides, all of these options are OPTIONAL, nobody is forcing you to select one and the AI isn't just going to randomly select one.