So I just discovered how awesome the simplified export is. I raved to my concept art friends about it - it exports all your objects, puts them into one, gathers all the texture maps and then you can go into the paint room and add textures over the whole object, even if it's comprised of several objects. What a game-changer. Well, it achieved this result once and only once and now, even though when you click file > export > decimate, auto-map, export you see 3dCoat creating polygroups