I don't really see the point in having figures have the same name unless they are just updates. But if you want to add new features, then you need to start a new figure. A problem with the Mikis, Vickys, and Genesises is that you have 4 or 5 of them that can't share each other's assets without conversion. But if you search for something for one of them in a market or freebie section you'll likely get stuff for her sisters. To keep compatibility would limit the upgrades you can make on them. If they aren't going to be compatible, you might as well avoid confusion and give them different names.

All that said, it doesn't mean that older figures should be ignored once the new figure comes out. If improvements could be made to Lafemme, then do it. Poser has long neglected content so people couldn't use the figures. Yeah, you could use wardrobe wizard to the fitting room to get them clothing, and the universal pose function was supposed to allow us to use other figure's poses, but without morphs and textures you end up with a room full of clones.

As for what I'd like to see in a new figure is for the poser team to review the complaints that killed the other figures and see what can be done to avoid them in the futures, things like lack of symmetry, poor bending, over-reliance on JCMs (not saying not to have any but limited) good topography, a thoughtful number of material zones, not so many it takes you forever to change them by hand but not so few you need to use masks to separate them, and enough content to get started.

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