I have literally never had that happen, even when my opponent is trying to do that... and it has only ever happened on one occasion to me personally. Again, I consider it to be a poor use of ones resources...

3pt win is the reason to engage.

A wild shot suggestion might be a change to the floor rules for competitive events:

At the start of each phase, if you have fewer pieces yet to activate than your opponent, you may choose to Pass, thus letting your opponent take another phase of activations.

This would solve the problem of out-activate and smash and 23-activation squads waiting for a normal squad to finish activating, only to stomp them and then win init the next round and do it again. I'm sure that many people will not like this change, stating that it removes some of the flavor from some of the factions, etc. But if we're really concerned about the end-and-start-of-round domination, then this would solve it.

When did it ever matter? Last night I read through a thread where you brought up this same point in 2013. http://www.bloomilk.com/Forums/default.aspx?g=posts&m=143311
I am not sure finishing games in top 8, and 4, in time has ever been necessary, but with that being said, I do believe that last year all of the top 8 games finished within time. At least the 3 I was involved with did, most didn't even take 45 minutes.

And that is bad how?

Besides, I don't think you understand. There would be *no* out-activate-and-smash squads. At all. Take note of the underlined and bolded section (in the quoted portion of this post).

For clarification:
--Round: the collection of all phases and activations after initiative is rolled
--Phase: when it's "your turn," you have 2 activations to make in a Phase (sometimes changed by Tempo Control pieces)
--Activation: using one piece

Therefore, you would only be able to Pass as long as your opponent had more guys to activate than you did. Once you were even in activations, play would revert to the standard 2-then-2-then-2-then-2 pattern that the game was designed for.

At most you would have a single free activation at the end of the round. And if you won init you could go first at the start of the next. Beyond that, the whole out-act tactic would be gone. Some people would say that's a loss for the game as a whole, but there are others who would disagree entirely.

You misunderstand me... for players, such as yourself that want to be able to play an 8 act squad with 3-4 beefy attackers this is great... For those that hate the act control aspect of the game this is wonderful... For those that feel having 6 activation squads results in an erosion of the strategy of the game this is not beneficial. If this Idea was taken into effect, squads like this could easily become the norm...
--Seperatist beat sticks--
56 Durge on Speeder
43 Cad Bane, Bounty Hunter
35 Asajj Ventress, Nightsister
31 Morrigan Corde
27 Lobot
8 R7 Astromech Droid

(200pts. 6 activations)

I this seriously what you want?

It isn't still an issue, I have only played in one top 4 this year where I think the end result may have gone my way. However, I was still out played within the hour mark and my opponent deserved the win over me because of that. I graciously give him credit for that because we both were under no illusions about the time constraints of our match, nor was I slow played. If I had been, I am sure the 2 judges standing over our game would have informed me before even I knew...

With daala, I got 7 shots per round at 30 a pop when they hit, with a 12 atk it wasn't guaranteed at all(and needa rerolls are a huge risk). I finished quickly because I knew my squad and played it fast. You say daala like it makes it easy to run... My squad was not easy to run. Other daala squads banked on out activating and smashing, mine did not and I never played it that way. Not to mention 4 of my games that day I was out activated and most of the time I brought less door control than my opponents.

Intuition, and the like is an ability that has been around since WOTC. I am not even sure it is an issue as I have never seen someone run it to success. Perhaps bronson and I will have to play a match on vassal. One hitch is you have to win out in a 4 round swiss tournament, no easy task. Also, you have to only play on maps where you can exploit this advantage. Good luck with all that...

And what is a reasonable solution?

nothing at all, i will bold the part i care about, you did what you had to in this game for sure man.

I'll address the bolded information first. I happen to like activation control. It already has its own downfall in most cases other than Dodonna.
I really don't like the idea of all CE's being range 6. Many were not designed to be that way and would not work well if they were restricted as such.
Also getting rid of booming voice is something i don't see happening. I tend to not play it very often, but I'm not against playing it myself.

Now making mice not provide cover, No problem to me. Release an errata for them, and it would solve them. Now i don't think you should be able to ignore them entirely just they don't provide cover, but that is my Opinion.

I also Whole-heatedly agree that Rapport Should be Errataed to not allow 2 point pieces. Simple glossary fix.

I will say that i know some of these things are being worked on at the moment by the Balance team. We will not see any changes released until after Gen-Con, but they will be working on these problems, and Discussing them.