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Remove Paradox Empires

I have no idea (I don't care about achievements), but last time I looked (years ago) any mod will disable achievements

Does it allow to play with achievements?

Thanks, I'll look into that

Update to the below.
I think you should not modify the "default" prescripted empire. This is what was causing the issues. As soon as I replaced this with the vanilla file, all good.

This has done something odd and removed all of the City images from my game. Very bizarre.

Hmm, I installed the planetary diversity base mod, and ran it with just my two mods you mentioned, and from what I can see in that nothing should conflict with my mods, I have 2 questions for you:
1: does it always spawn in exactly 7 of your custom empires, or does that number fluctuate?
2: when setting the name for your custom empires did you just hit the random button and leave it at that?

2 causes problems because of something in the stellaris back end, it is easy to get around by just renaming your empire, even to the original name

Help please, I am using this and 'all custom empires'.
I use UI overhaul, At war ship sections, a bunch of basic portrait mods and a bunch of basic ship sets.Cybrxkhans name lists, and Plaetary diversity.

I have no created empires which I do not have locked in for my game. I created 14 and have my game set to 14 AI. All are locked in. I start the game and ~7 are rando empires and about 7 are my created empires. I am not using Sol or Deneb, Common ground or anything like that.
What am I doing wrong? Load order? Thank you for any help any one can give.

hmm, that's bizarre, the empires shouldn't even exist in the code to spawn, United Nations of Earth will spawn if there's a human Lost Colony, but the rest should never spawn, as they don't exist.. I would like to help but I have no idea what would cause this to happen, and can't replicate it

They no longer appear in Empire select, but they still spawn nevertheless when i genrate a galaxy.

When you go to start a new game do the paradox empires still appear at the bottom of the list of empires that you can choose?