Yeah, I first tried the "mindread always on" before mindread didn't cost a turn, but I got sick of having to spend time setting that up all the time (mana isn't really an issue, it's easy to maintain ~2000 mana with 12+ girls and a few foursomes a day), so I'll give it the suggested line edits and hope that works.
So I've just about finished my reload and have *more* mods now with no issues so far. Though I haven't done a pregnancy test to confirm Halfkin Expanded is working yet. My guess is that versioning is what was getting me. I hadn't realized the main game was still getting code updates so I was running a version from ~2 years ago I think, and some of my mods were older while others were more recent. I also didn't know the bugfix should be first so I'm pretty sure constants was at the top.