combat viewer upgrade?

I'm pretty excited with the new expansion getting ready to hit beta, the new technology trees should change the game considerably. But what of the combat viewer it has remained the same since the begining. its clumsy, ships will pretty much crash into each other on the intial attack, plus it lacks damage textures. the battle viewer with a little work could be much nicer eye candy graphically. I want to see my nano rippers tear holes or perhaps completely blow off sections of my enemies hull, or be defected by the layer of tristronium armor. I want to watch my fleet of small hulled ships swarm a larger attacker or give chase to a equally manuverable ship and so on. the damage texures may be out of range for some players so it would probably have to be optional.