Good question. I would like to know as well.
I will see what I can learn from the vega strike forum this weekend, not sure how much time I have though.
Well if I read the coments in the forum correctly, many things that where not in the original are there to stay, by public demand and the personal opinion of the devs.(like the ability to fly the extra ships or sliding)
The way I see it the devs do not want to recreate the original but a...
http://www.crius.net/zone/showthread.php?t=17090
So anyone up to making it?
I tried looking at the source myself, but I do not know where to start.
Most things that need doing are not even sourcecode changes but data changes.
My priority list would be:
*Fix prices and remove all the...
*remove drifting, I think that was not possible in the original or I just never used it
*Make all prices as they where in the original, most are too high right now
*lower mission rewards to original levels
*remove limited stock for the ship dealer
*some ships are much too hard to kill some...