PHENYL'S PROFILE

This has probably been said at some time or other, but I liked how Earthbound/Mother did the touch-encounters where if they're too low a level, you simply beat the enemy automatically.

I personally don't think the behaviour of touch-encounters matters too much. When I'm playing a game, I'd rather be able to avoid things as necessary (ie. have encounter movements be mainly consistent throughout) instead of having really erratic and changing movement patterns. Isn't the whole point of touch-based encounters to let the player decide if they want to fight or not?

Kind of an aside, but I'm surprised I haven't played any games using a Pokemon-style encounter system: "tall grass" plus a lot of mostly-unavoidable one-time trainer battles.