hi acadia. it looks like you're getting help from the man himself but i am happy to share whatever.

i have a test case of v41 with a cowboy outfit that is 78mb. that was reduced to 6mb and 800k compressed. the morphs in the clothes were as much as in v41. i also tried a file where i put on a new head and a new body that i downloaded and the results were nearly as good.

i ran some tests using my batch render script. the load time and save times were less but the render was about the same in my tests. i am not doing a full scene so the results of others may be different. i have been thinking about making the test script available because it has helped me out a lot in understanding what the effect is of doing different things when making or rendering a scene.