I don't think they abandoned the project in this early stage...there are thousands of people mining it and the number is increasing day after day...the dev team probably are still working even if they do not give updates in 2 months...let's give it a little more time it's not easy to develop a project...
I realized yesterday that Elicoin is on YesscryptR16 which can in fact be mined on GPU with great effect.
Few month ago I sold my GPU decided to never again invest in any hardware for mining which i dont need for other tasks... Mining Elicoin without a GPU is rather pointless.
and then i found Cryply ... Which is by now strictly CPU coin.
If I would like to invest in mining hardware i would have bought decent ASIC for SHA256 and started mining Bitcoin.