Hey there,
Firstly I would like to say good job on Beta 4, I am really loving the new features and changes that have been added, especially the new characters (I look forward to seeing even more of them in future releases.)
Secondly I thought that I might make a suggestion on something that might be worth adding sometimes in later versions. What I was wondering is would it be possible to add some sort of feature, when if enabled on a server would only let you select a character that hasn't already been selected by another player? Like on the origanal version...
I think that this might be worth thinking about as a feature that would be optional for certain servers to avoid having the same character as different players if one chooses to have that feature enabled. If there are enough characters created in later versions then it shouldn't limit the number of players to some servers either. (I seem to remember there being quite a few characters on the N64 version)
I think that if this was added it could actually make things quite fun if everybody was playing as a different person...
Just a thought anyway, I'm sorry if this had been mentioned already...
Keep up the good work!