Never took the question as a flame. It never hurts to find out as much as you can before you buy something.

Daz stated themselves that V4.1 will work with Carrara6. There was a lot of howlng about V4.1 not working in Carrara. There are a few threads at Daz that mention it. Try checking the Carrara forum at Daz and the Common forum had a thread too. There is a long thread about the Poser SDK. Steve first said that ef would not let them have the Poser SDK and then he had to change his answer to a "we are going to pursue in a different direction.

Daz has been talking about a cloth simulator. I think it would be a plug for DS. I think they would do better if it was a stand alone app. They would generate more sales but that is only at the, "we are talking to the company that does it,"  stage.

The P5 dynamic clothroom works well. Not quite as good or fast as the P6/7 but gets the job done. I remember pricing C4D myself before I bought Carrara5Pro. So I have a good idea at the prices. I sometimes wish I had waited and bought C4D instead of Carrara, yet, Carrara has been a good tool to work with for some things. I still use Vue6I more but Vue could not make something like my avitar which was the first thing I did with Carrara the day I bought it.