Quote - ... I would have thought by this stage that Poser might be utilising current hardware better, and have a decent rigging system for figures that bend and pose really well. After all, it is supposed to be 'The Premier 3d Figure Design and Animation Solution' . ...

Unfortunately, a lot of those types of problems won't likely get significant improvement unless they do a re-write from scratch. The code base is very old, as software goes, and it's very hard to fix (I talked more about that in this thread). What they need to do is to re-write the internals, and almost certainly would need to change the data format (the CR2 file) to improve the way rigging works. Can you imagine the screaming from the community if one day we woke up and e-Frontier said, "Hey, Poser has a great new rigging system that's easy to use and really functional! Your old content is now useless!"

Ain't that a pretty thought, hmm?

Captain Jack