Quote - While that's great and good info if we ever decide to revamp the older characters, I think we were talking doing a generation 2 of Rex and Roxie. I could be misunderstanding though, I do that a lot these days.  

If you don't have these 2 items, then you will be wasting your time.

1.  **Morph Packs **- It is great that people who are great with Z-Brush are able to go and make their own custom characters - however, that isn't your user base.  Most of us are dial-spinners.  Rex & Roxie are still lacking in this department, which is why they aren't going anywhere.  (Well technically, Roxie does have a morph pack, over on that "other" site, but most people aren't going to go and grab Roxie Plus.)

They need to have morph packs from the get go, like Alyson & Ryan.  Or with 3rd party morph sets available on launch date, like Simon & Sydney. Either way is acceptable, but you must have them on launch day.

Recommendations - Colm made the great Ultimate Head & Body morphs for a number of Poser characters.  Jasmina made a simply incredible set of morphs for G2 Sydney & Jessi, as did Dimension 3D.  3d-ghdesign made a great set of morphs & expressions for Michelle.  Afroditeohki made a great set of morphs for Antonia.  DieTrying over on ShareCG made a great set of morphs and expressions for Antonia, V4, Genesis, and Laura.

Get at least one of these folks on board, preferably all of them - If you have to give them a copy of Poser 2014, do it.

One other recommendation - tell the f*&^%&% vendors do give their morph & expression packs descriptive names, not "cute" ones.  I just discovered a really nice set of expressions for Michelle that I didn't know about because the name was "cute" as opposed to descriptive.

2.  Vendor buy-in.  Rex & Roxie stumbled out of the gate because you didn't have vendor content ready to go on day 1.  I would recommend coordinating with a dozen or so vendors so that they have a product or 3 ready to go on launch.

Character Recommendations: 

http://www.rendercandy.com/index.php

Get RecieCup on board so that our little community can look a little less racist.  The lack of ethnic characters for any Poser or DS mesh is downright creepy.