both weapons have the same forward velocity 180m/s (+ ship speed)

Okay, oops, I was wrong (first time ever! lol)

Pyroman, barrel-rolling against a sunflare-equiped ship is nearly certain death. There are only 1 or 2 types of sunflare attacks you should roll away from. Others will just cause you to eat the damage.

If a barrel-roll is like this:
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and your radius is only 60m, you probably will still hit a rocket, but if your stretch this all out:
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You travel farther in the same amount of time and thus avoid the flare.

hey just a quick thought, the flares are prox right? well wouldn't a flare launhed beside it trigger the sensors?
so in other words, why do the flares not blow up when they are less than 10m apart?

Nice idea.. hmmm.. so calculate the minimum distance, then how long it takes to cover that distance. Then replace the 'launch every second' with whatever that number is.

why do your prox mines not blow up when they are launched from your ship?

The prox mines are equipped with tagging technology. Think of it as an "electronic antigen". Serco Mines do not detonate when a Serco craft is near because the digital antigens match. Rockets, on the other hand, are mass-produced for all nations by a branch of Universal Ballistics Ltd. in a modual of the sector 7 station. Since these are cheap, assembly line deals, the technology is a little behind.

Actually the technology is behind because the Serco sweatshop workers don't care to improve it. If you Serco slave-drivers would pay your labroers a living wage this would never happen! Our NT model of capitalism and democracy is superior in every way!

I don't think you're quite grasping the point. Universal Ballistics isn't nation-dependant. They are working under grants of equal value of all nations.

any one can complain about any weapon...
if everyone started killing people with charge cannons, people would want it nerfed....

Thanks for the cynical comment, Willis, you just added an invaluable thought to our discussion.

if the weapons detonated each other it'd be waaaay to easy to simply fire a tach stream or even flares at other flares to avoid ever being hit

Hitting a flare with a tach? Hmmm, that's hard. However, detonating flares with your own would be an interesting tactic I'm sure!

remote detonating sunflares.. lol