>>718227943
Empirically speaking, now is the time when the most amount of mods will be working. It's at the end of the cycle, right before another dlc releases. So you could play now, with all the mods you want. It will take about a month for you to slog through all the story and DLC missions until you reach the end of the timeline, at which point you can get the Clans DLC and play that, albeit without most of the mods you've come to love.