[Will]

Well, you could do that. But really, there are reasons why the missiles aren't any faster than they are already, which is what everyone else is trying to say. Missiles are king in the early game when everything else is slow anyway, but there's still room to move around in battles. Then toward the end game, you need a variety of weapons to win any battle. The focus of the game is how to keep your fleets as balanced as possible, but if you increase the power of missiles too much (by increasing speed), the game simply becomes "who can build more missile boats faster?" And there comes a point where if you increase the speed any more, missiles just become glorified, never-miss, direct fire weapons.