From the "Easy Button" thread:

Quote Originally Posted by MadFloyd View Post
At the risk of derailing the OP's thread, out of curiousity how many of you would have preferred that TR'ing restricts difficulty choice to Elite only? Or Hard/Elite the first time around & Elite the second+ ?

Personally I think this is a very interesting idea and wish we had contemplated implementing it this way.
Several of us think this would be the greatest thing to hit the game, leave the XP at 1.9 Million but require quests to be run on elite for TRs to get XP.

Devs - is this a possibility, actually being considered?