What I mean is keep those rings in the camera in the highpoly but bake them to a single big fat ring in the lowpoly so you keep all the verts around the outer and inner edge but you dont have any of the extra rings inside that shape, know what I mean?
If I remove to many rings on the lens I will get a square-ish on the eyes which would drag down the picture a lot because the eyes is such a important piece in all creatures. Its one of the first things we look for at. But I think there is room to remove loops from the flower and petals or some interior parts of the…