When I started I did purchase a lot of the characters available but came quickly bored with so many that looked almost identical. Over time I began to do some dial spinning and then moved on to playing with the textures. In a sense I was forced to go that way as I wanted a slightly older character, at least older than the twenty somethings that appears to be the norm.

Earlier on this year I started using Dawn SE and I did not even look at the characters available. I purchased a few morph packs and some textures and created my characters from there. As others have said, I think the only thing that would tempt me to buy characters now would be a good set of textures.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.