They fly through resource asteroids all the time, in normal Sins. Suns, too, for that matter!

What's worse is that every Advent trade ship flys straight through the starbase when it docks. It seriously ruins the ambiance.

Ship pathfinding is one thing I really wish they'd fix, in general.

Watching ships in Homeworld used to be like watching ballet. It was epic. Sins ships, however, bounce off of each other, fly through each other, clump up, and accelerate/decelerate in jumpy little spurts, and I hate to say it, look kind of bad.

One thing that I think could actually be fixed rather easily, with the fighters, is that I really wish they'd deviate from the ecliptic plane, sometimes. They should swoop in and out of a battle, over and under, but mostly they fly along on the plane, clipping with everything, all clumping up into one ship, and making these zero-roll turns. Not to compare red apples to green apples, again, but Homeworld fighters swooped around doing loops, and it was awesome.

I remember watching an Akkan fly through my starbase yesterday, and I've seen ships larger than fighters fly through each other in the regular Sins... I just never thought anything of it.

i think they might be able to fix these problems for the next incoming installment of space based RTS called 'HW3' nufsaid!

When I'm hitting a planet with cap ships and seige ships, example with vasari, they just aim the planet and the beam attack of some ships go through some ships that are in front of them and then hit the planet.

I have noticed caps flying throught starbases and I assume smaller ships, I never really noticed if smaller ships do it but I saw when a cap does it.

I generally don't mind fighters flying through ships/structures, because I understand how resource intensive it would be otherwise, but I would really like to see fighters respect planets and suns.  It shouldn't be too resource intensive, since these are large, stationary objects.  Nothing ruins the atmosphere mroe for me than to see 100+ fighters plow through a star.

Ironically, I have noticed that fighters are much better about not flying through starbases.  They normally pull up out of their bombing run well before they hit the surface.  It doesn't always happen, but it occurs significantly more often than with other objects.

@xenoOne:  Yeah, I've noticed ships going up or down around objects a lot more since 1.1.  I even once had a fleet go around a star by forming a giant vertical ring around it.  Looked awesome.