Aric's Expansion is very finicky with compatibility with most other mods. What other mods/bugfixes do you have applied?
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Elpresidentes tweaks
And improved random portraits
Those 2 are the only other mods I don't figure the portraits would do anything.
ignore original version i was going off of memory for the mods its just those and the constant file that comes with the game
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yep, its incompatibility with ElPresidentes Tweaks. alright