now i dont want this thread to become a flame war or anything but what if we change the purpose of rockets. Right now there all pretty much short range. What if sunflares are changed to a 'seeker' missile. A sort of long range weapon that can be used by traders to deter pirates and pirates to stop running traders. Perhaps it stops anyone in the explosion are from boosting for 5-10 seconds. Or myabe just does damage. This would probaly be low agility, high range, and medium speed and proximity. Maybe medium damage. To prevent from use in close combat make it have a large explosion range. Currently there is no long range missile other than avalon, which isn't that good for that purpose.

kheldorn, in order for a missle to work as you have discribed it would need to be much faster than any of the current missles, because it would have to be able to hit someone turboing.

I personally feel that the flares do have a place in the game (though they do need some tweaking) and shouldn't be replaced by this new weapon. Here's what I would suggest:

Ammo: (Something or other) longrange missle
Capacity: 10
Repeat: .5/second (ie one shot every two seconds)
Damage: 1400
Splash: 100m
Detonation: Contact
Manuverability: Horrible (ie if you're not going in a straight line it'll miss and once it misses it'll take forever to turn around)
Fuel: 30sec
Speed: 250m/s
Size: Small (if people want a large one instead up the dmg and speed)