I was just trying to use primitives in V6...but the polygon size of these objects is horrendous...
2 BILLION polygons only using 13 primitives.
Is there a way to reduce them?

You must be doing something wrong or strange... Vue primitives are very efficient. A cube has 6 polygons, a pyramid has 5, etc. Could you describe your problem in more detail and post some screenshots?

something must be really strange..i saved that first scene..started another and watched as each object populated the scene. Very small indeed. I'm in the middle of a render right now, so as soon as that is done, I'll dig into the particulars. Thanks

ok..it may be the ecosystem..possibly, although my second scene was only at 4meg polys.. here's a screenshot...not sure that says much really ... there isn't anything elaborate. The primitives all have basically the same materials. I'll post a rendered scene..not much there. just trying my hand on a bit of futuristic scene using the stock Vue items

and here's how i tlooks so far. jus tthe trial of where I was going with this.

You most likely have some kind of ecosystem in some of those objects. It's impossible to have that many polygons in a scene if they're non-instanced. Maybe you loaded some stock material that contains an ecosystem? Maybe the terrains? I'd suggest that you check your materials one by one. One thing is for sure: it's not the primitives.