Ok, usually the modding community is met with dispansion, some people like one mod, and some people like another mod... so getting a large group of people together, who all like the mod just as much as the original game is usually quite hard. Well as of right now, Elite has gathered quite a good audience, of people who are really into the game and are really into the whole "if I made the game I would have done This different.."

My theory is this... develop a general mod, or expansion for freelancer, changing only minor things, like being able to pilot all the ships that came with freelancer, not "build your own" crappy ships (no offence to those people that do make GOOD ships they designed) but stuff like that. It would be most simple scripting... Being able to pilot transports/battleships would be HELLA cool, but again, I think that would require a higher level of coding. Applying this mod to a server like Elite would be awesome, because Elite has already gatherd such an audince, and it's not really modding, in the sense that you would only be enabling certain disabled features in the game... anyways... This is just my thoughts, you have your own and it would be nice to hear em' !