Just here to say how much I admire this initiative. It sounds like this mod is gonna kick ass ;D
I have seen Battle Royal and even BR 2 in japanese without subtitles (which is not so good as BR 1 even though I didn't knew anything about what they said or was going one), but anyway, the thing I liked so much about BR (except from the random weapons and silly evil sadistic events) were the characters and character designs.
You just knew who was evil, semi evil, scared like shit, wise guys, hero types, smart & experienced, idiots, unexperienced dickheads and air head girls.
Maybe this is something the MOD should charictarize with. Like you fill in a question list and based on the awnsers you will become this character. In the mission editor this isn't very hard, you just activate the group respawn option and based on the awnsers you add the type of character to it's group and kill the original, thus making the player to respawn as his character. For character design, each person should be modelled and textured (etc) and given special abilities and incapabilities.
Like panicery schoolgirls can't use a crossbow or a Uzi, they use other honest players to survive and use their weapon (poison/pan) to kill whoever trusts her.
Damn, just had another great idea, the whole concept of BR 1 is survivle of the fittest and it's exactly that the survivle aspect needs to be strenghtend. Like, with food. Each player needs to eat and drink or else he/she will die or hunger or doesn't get enough energy to move around or fight.
Lol, just some random ideas I got spurring in my mind, I just love Japanese cinema and animation, so innovative so realistic. Just seeing my own class being dropped off in the middle of nowhere with random weapons like a thee spoon and my mentor killed by a forced sadistic teacher........... just makes me laugh about live itself.