Interesting news about Pauline in this thread. ty all for the infos.
(even its a bit offtopic)
As my poser experience (since Poser5) tells me, Poser11 will be stable after SR3, hopefully for the ppl using Poser11. Personally i will pause again for 1 to 2 Releases, like i did before, got  PPro2010 then PPro2014.
Maybe SM should take more time too and produce more quality content and less initial bugs.
Releasing a figure like Pauline with such flaws is not understandable / acceptable. 

So now back to the topic of this thread, lets have a look at SM's Alyson and Ryan.

(comparing the smith micro figures, positives and negatives of each.)

Well so i start with very annoing negative one and hope this does not count as offtopic.

My first issue with this figures was the ONE folder they are installed to. 

Lets say you have installed the distributed figures packages of PPro2014 and take
a first look inside your content (runtime\libraries\People\Ryan or \Alyson).
Wow, you see all mixed up together, very confusing without any structure. 

Its possible to clearly structure folders under runtime\libraries since Poser5 !
(provided that you don't have references inside)
But SM the Poser devlopers take you that freedom, by packing all different Ryan
Versions including corresponding .obj's and .pmds in ONE directory.
(Rember .obj and .pmd are references and should reside under runtime\geometries)
And Alyson, absolute the same. (Each directory has more than 600 MB together 1.2GB)

So tell me if you dont know these figures very well, where to start to check them out ?

Besides that, .pmd Tech should help to not copy morphs over and over again.
But what does SM here ?, they create absolute indentical copies of .pmds
with different names.

So before i was content to continue with Ryan and Alyson i had to clear out
that crap to an easy to use folder structure. Costed me about 2 hours, but now
i have the folder structure like it should came from SM. References  on its place
and saved a lot of space, getting rid of this useless copies of .pmd files.
And also a clear division between Rayn and Ryan2, Alyson and Alyson2  and all of his/her different versions.