Tail Chase Pursuit Guidance is boring. Takes no skill to use and no skill to avoid, only speed or an ecm. The problem with making a missile faster for this case is that the missile will always hit because ED missiles don't use guidance law, don't use Newtonian physics, nor do they drift. They go straight to their target at their defined speed.
If you are thinking that high velocity missiles would turn this game into some kind of battleship game, you're mistaken. In fact, Newtonian missiles which follow some rudimentary guidance law are the only type of missiles that will provide fun and meaningful gameplay. It is not even a matter of personal opinion because the current version does not have gameplay elements to even apply opinions to. It is factually simplistic. Lock on, fire, forget, and watch it either hit, get ecm'ed, or they literally outrun it which should never be the case for missile gameplay. In our case, they are just cannons that wipe out modules while never missing or requiring any aim.
In a Newtonian physics environment, a missile's maximum trajectory curvature will always be limited by it's acceleration, and that limit becomes more hindering the faster it goes. This means, if you are being chased, you will more likely get hit than if you were to joust it. The trick is only to maneuver out of the missile's curvature bounds. This depends on the lead guidance law coefficient, which can be set to either be perfectly accurate, or just accurate enough to work on some situations but not all. The latter is what is ideal for engaging gameplay. If you do not know what I'm talking about at this point, then your personal opinion is based on incomplete knowledge and you should think twice before spewing nonsense about battleship and long range combat. You don't even get to target ships beyond 7-13k so the argument gets silly on a basic level.
