Whats a good way to minimize polys?

[snb]

From reading the fourms I have found out (or at least think Ive found out) that the untainted model max poly is 1000.  I want to know if any one has any good ways when making a modles poly as effiecient as possible.  If any one has suggestions please post them.

[mooseberry]

Suggestions... Don't make your model complicated.

[seeeker]

make your models "by hand", not with subsurf and other stuff like that, just extruding and cutting where needed =), good textures will help a lot as well. Use symetry tools to help you too.

this is coming from a newbie tho =D

[Kaleo]

Also remember that you will need to triangulate the model.