I, Flea, have started an activity called space chicken. It is a fun game and the rules are two players speed at eachother and ram the first player to give up or to die looses.

You dolt, that's been around for YEARS

ZEAL and Zeplin used to do something similar.
as a game it may be fun, but it is impractical to ever turbo directly at an opponent (specially when your opponent has rails/flares)

[moved to role playing...I guess]

no wepon use during play

Aye, this be an old tradition. It used to be played a lot with the s7 guard rails. But now that the new stations are in place we can't rocket sled or play chicken anymore on 'em, 'cause they don't exist! I miss those guard rails...

=(

I loved those rails. It was a dream of mine to see ship after ship flying out of them like an army being unleashed.

LOL Magus! That should be posted on a "you know you're addicted to vendetta if..." thread

actually, the s7 station last I checked had a small straight bit there...

It's no rail though.

Indeed, the rail is what matters. Perhaps when physical interaction with gameworld effects are added (radar interference clouds, braking fields in front of docks, pay-100c-to-fly-safe toll sectors, etc.) acceleration pads can make an appearance, ready to launch you from the station to a distant wormhole gate for 10c.

wait, didn't *I* discover the rail for that purpose? At least the launching thing...?