they entered a temporal flux

lol yea its stupid that they can fly through planets y not make umm go over or round.

Say this with a racing announcers echo now.. The incredible "Phase Shifting Fighters!" Not only do they miraculously fly though your capitol ships without so much as getting a scratch (take a close look at the Kol while moving, and the fighters following it). They can now go though planets ! Who needs to go around obstacles when you can phase shift, and go THROUGH them! (major humorous sarcasm intended in this reply).

Seriously, I dont think it was intended that fighters fly though objects. Some work on collision avoidance should fix that. I assume all objects in the game have a collision mesh, or something like that.

I hated that in HW2 that my squadrons were sometimes too stupid to avoid some things (like asteroids, and HUGE capitol ships), and wound up playing lemming, and flying right into these objects destroying the entire wing. However at least it was somewhat realistic that they could be destroyed by collisions. Im not sure if that would work here being that sometimes the cap ships fly extremely close together. Sometimes bouncing off of each other (another annoying thing i see sometimes). Collision avoidance yes but destruction upon collision should prolly wait till beta 3 or 4.

and its a good thing they cant miss!!! after all, what happens to a shell that was fired in space? it keeps going for millions (if not billions) of years! so your pc can handle, say, 1000 shots being fired at once? well what happens if half of them miss? thats alot mroe shots onscreen, as they are not destroyed as soon as a hit would be... and besides, what kind of uber leet futuristic ship MISSES ITS TARGET? even the targeting systems of today can hit targets within a very small percentage of error

as for the going through other ships, if it used collision detection on every stinking projectile it would be a royal pain for your computer... so either u go through a ship or you reduce framerates by a bunch... i would say stick with the going through a ship

Option 3: Make autocannon rounds explosive. If missing the target, they explode is a flashy flak cloud. Problem solved

As for inaccuracy, remember that the distances in this game are humongous compared to those in modern day earth combat. Despite shells traveling quite quickly, the time it takes for them to travel through all that space, the target might've shifted heading just a little bit and thus, by the time the round gets there, you'd miss.

As for lasers, they dissipate as they lose all their thermal energy the further they travel in the coldness of space. Missiles should explode when running out of fuel, but they have guidance systems so they generally hit anyway.

I agree with Major Stress though. I'd rather these physics be kept as simple as possible for the sake of stability and fun. There are many other ways to make firing, combat and flashes more appealing. Eye Candy for the win.

The little bit that's on topic:
Yes, fighters do travel through planets, I checked last game and can confirm it. But this is being fixed or has been fixed internally if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah... it would definetly make things more flashy, considering the amount of autocannon rounds that are shot off.

Don't really need to do damage, but would make things more intense.