The race was made with the ingame editor with .97.5.  The only thing non-vanilla about it was that I used race leader portraits and a race icon that had been uploaded here.

I used no console commands.

On .97.5?  If so, then why didn't it work for me?  Was it the leader portrait/race icon that wasn't part of the vanilla game?  Or the fact that I got the cultural achievement on the same game?

It works FOR YOU.  I learned early in my thirty seven years of developing software that "It works here" is not the end of diagnosing a problem, it's a point of reference where comparisons of the differences in the environments can lead to a discovery of the real problem.  Hence my asking if using a different leader portrait/race icon could cause it.

I am, I think, the second person to report this; the first was mentioned in a post with multiple other points and a title not referencing this problem, hence I can't find it.

Anyway, if you would like to examine the custom race I used to see if anything was done that could have caused a problem, I submitted a save from that game for a different problem early today, in ticket #RME-280-14194.

I was also using the Terran tech tree, but did not get credit for a Terran win.  I don't care about not getting the achievement now, I'm sure I'll pick it up later.  My concern is that I'm trying to be a good beta tester and find bugs.  As a fan of Stardock's, I don't want people buying this game next Thursday and running into a bug that's already been discovered.  If Derek takes it seriously I'll be satisfied.