You'd better!
If you dump DT I'll save up and fly to Oz especially just to throw damp sprouts at you.
Personally I'd love to see a space combat RPG where you actually get to board ships and control gun emplacements etc - maybe like a space pirate game where you can even enslave the crew. Please don't go at this with the idea of making 'Elite but better' - there's so much that hasn't been done with space games that you should look to introduce as much fresh ideas as possible.
Van-B
The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!.