Pure RDS lovin', baby. She gets a bit cranky after 500,000 polys, and I have to port to Carrara to do a any fancy light effects (auras, light cones, etc.), but it's what I've been using for years and it's what I know how to use. Though if MAX ever has a "$3400 off sale" I'd likely spring for that. I'm just getting into organics, now that I've got Carrara (which is better at the rounded stuff), but I'm still mostly a machinist. I used to work with modified polys, nowadays I find myself building straight up from vertexes more and more. How I do it is really dictated by what each mode of the program can do- my polymeshes are generally as simple as I can get away with, and assemble into more complex shapes.