Well, FlyByU, programming teams always have a huge amount of ideas on what they might code. The big question is, which of these many ideas *should* they code?
And I believe they're doing the right thing: looking at old games who have such good gameplay that they're still being played today despite 320x200x256 graphics and other limitations. For example, Master of Orion -> GalCiv (and they were the first to actuall ymanage that, although very many others tried).
So what you're talking about is, in effect, an Elite extension. And yup, I believe they'd be the right ones to do so. And who knows, in a couple of years (after they do the non-MoM!), they might just do that...
Ciao,
Klaus