So you are running the original and standalone. Then you changed the species portraits to cyborg with the "effect = { modify_species = { portrait = cyborg } }" command? or did you use something else? Just don't use a capital C in the beginning and it seems to work for me.

However the easiest solution if you want to run with the new mixed cyborg species when you were originally playing as human would be to use the expanded non-standalone varsion and disable the standard and standalone for this particular game. Then activate them and disabling the non-standalone afterter you are finished with this run.

Ah...the missing link. No, I just changed the original species portrait in menu...without effect command...as this worked in other cases. :P

My original 'RPG'-styled idea was to start with Soviet Human SA and after reaching a certain tech level to switch to little cyborg helpers by changing over to Cyborg SA. After my first try...I recognized, I will loose the Soviet clothing if I change it that way. So ... I guess I'll have to come back to non-SA version to simply replace the Human portraits and keep the Soviet outfit. Theoretically. But I fear I have to do it by In-Game command.

I see. I don't really know how to make that work without having to mod the soviet mods files in some way as the soviet mod doesn't use the standard human portraits or the clothes. Sorry.

NP, thx a lot for looking into it. In my next game I'll just take Human Variety instead.

No problem. Have fun.