Quote - I take it you are buying a comp with the figures preinstalled?

Quote - lol. I was wondering about that comment.

Hmmm. I mentioned this, because that was how I understood the question by the original poster. It wasn't "which freebies DS users should download?". It was about investment into Dawn, possibly serious.

I try to limit my daily budget to $10, but I fail more often than not. Over the last two years I spent around $10,000 on Gen4 and Genesis stuff, and my wishlist is huge still.

This particular store happens to release over a dozen new products daily. If you did a quick math of what was released for Dawn across several participating stores you'd come to a fairly significant sum.

When you need to lay a foundation for a new figure the expenditure is quite large: base and morphs, a few characters, almost all the clothing (until you've got them for most scenarios) and shoes, some "native" hair, a bunch of poses, etc. That's already several hundred dollars (the "base" bundle for Dawn is something like $45 already,, right?). And it's been just a couple of weeks since Dawn release…

I am aware of the freebies and different tools to convert earlier products for use with newer generations. I use Generation X extensively as well as PoseMaster and built-in DS tools. Unfortunately Crossdresser and Wardrobe Wizard that aproctor mentioned are not available for all users - they're PC only.

I know from my own experience how long it takes for a new figure to acquire its own world to inhabit. Take Genesis, for example. I did a few early tests as soon as DS 4 was released, but didn't render anything final until maybe a half year later. Early clothing was a bit eh… shall we say… OK, just let them rest.

For me personally Genesis "bloomed" only after release of Freak, several monsters, YT5 and Aiko sets, when I could say that I have a range of characters and stuff to do most of what I needed. So before Genesis became fully functional I had to spend at least a couple of thousands.

Don't get me wrong - I know that I could possibly have saved some of this money skipping Hiro 5 and using Hiro 3 shape for Genesis, because it was cheaper. I respect the ingenuity of people who invent free and cheap ways to solve a particular problem. In fact I use their advice all the time, because there's no such thing as "props enough". But hey - we are discussing investment in a new figure on a forum of a store that does business in this as well as providing income for the vendors.

So I was assuming that billb3 was asking about practical reasons to buy things for Dawn, not just get a free base and use converters. Otherwise all this discussion would be kind of pointless.