[Kameron8]

I agree with nearly all of the pain points that people in this thread brought up with the new initiative system.  And while I'm not going to pretend the old initiative system was perfect, I very often feel like the frustrating ''edge cases'' manifest so frequently that I would rather have the old system's issues over the new.

I won't go into extreme detail about this again, because I've already done so once and this thread has fairly comprehensive information, but rigid enforcement of 'taking turns' turn order encourages nonsensical strategies of gimping your own turn to steal initiative, using revived enemies as a crutch, and manipulating team number count to force the initiative system to let someone double turn specific people. Because this system is so inflexible with deviating away from teams taking turns, it turns into an exploitable mechanic for knowledgeable players -- and an arcane force that occasionally fucks someone over seemingly at random for newer players.

I'll conclude my thoughts with this: there should never be a situation where someone has to ask themselves, "Will the turn order change and kill me if I defeat this opponent?  Would it be better if I just left him alive?  Should we have our low health player kill themself so our mage can jump their team next turn without their archer getting a turn?"