I've never heard of one of these things before. What are the power loaders that come with figures like V4, and what do they do?

This is what DAZ has to say about them https://helpdaz.zendesk.com/entries/123814-What-is-Powerloader-

I've never used one! Good luck!

It also has an "ET" Phone home part to it. , which is a very smart marketing move for them and bad news for software thieves as a poser user the only part that works is the ET phone home part far as I have been able to figure out, I can verify the phone home part as for any other function it may have in poser I have no real knowledge. It may actually have real function in poser 12 pro or newer...

So basically, it's meaningless to me, since I am a Poser person and buy my content legally. Thanks for the info guys.

Well I am hoping some one smarter then me will step in and correct me if I am in error. See I bought two Micheal4's rather I bought one and then DAZ gave him to me as part of a promotion, but when I tried to give him away I found out about the ET phone home part and the fact you do not really "own" anything you buy from Daz. You are buying to right to limited usage by yourself and no one else. Same way with their programing. I own, bought and paid for several versions of some of their programs and you can't sell your earlier versions as you cannot transfer ownership....Course This might have changed in recent years....

No idea how something that doesn't exist in Poser is going to be able to "phone home".

PowerLoader is a DS system that works with the Gen 4 figures and the SubDragon, it basically allows you to choose which morph channels sets to load with the figure, as well as INJect the morphs for those channels. Lets say you have V4 but you only want the ++ morphs and channels to load, you turn off A4, G4 etc in the PowerLoader window, tell it to pre-INJect the ++ morphs, and when Vicky loads into the scene those morphs and channels will be the only ones there.

It's meant to save on load times and RAM use, but tbh you use just as much RAM using it as you do without using it, as it has to load the entire CR2 first before it can delete the channels, you're also quicker just loading the CR2 and INJecting the morphs yourself than waiting on PowerLoader to finish.