Bryce is usally a heck of a lot slower, and yeah I jumped ship ages ago ;)

 

Some tips on render settings (from Vue9 though)

http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/tutorials/htm/48.html

 

ususally as folk say, it's atmosphere settings that can make render times go crazy, so have the quality slider sin atmosphere at -1 or so! Unless you wish and need better, all kinds of tweaks you cna do, and sometimes high quality setting doesn't improve things

OR

one thing that makes renders slow hellishly, is if the camera is inside a volumetric object, say a cloud or a sphere with smoke etc, for effects perhaps

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