My guild mates and I were wondering if the shield on the ships are a physical barrier, or could you possibly as an example, fly a small fighter insider a larger ships shields to put direct fire onto its hull effectively bypassing the shields?asked by Acebravo

That's a good question. So the way the shields work on all our ships is, the shields are actually separate collision geometry that is further out from the actual collision geometry that defines where you would hit the actual hull of the ship. And the concept is that the shields are really meant to absorb energy, so if I'm firing an energy bolt, it'll take that and dissipate it round the shields, and ballistic weapons actually penetrate through shields, but they do have some of their energy sapped away. So therefore if you've got really strong shields you can reduce the kinetic energy on the hit of the shield. They're not really built to prevent or save you from hitting an asteroid, or a head-to-head collision with another ship, because the idea is the shields will always stop things at a certain kinetic velocity or energy or whatever.So it definitely would be a case I would think, that you could fly a ship through - assuming the AA of the ship aren't firing at you - through a bigger ship's shields and maybe be on the inside of it, and shoot. So once you're inside that shield proxy, obviously your bullets won't get stopped by the shield proxy - they'll only get stopped by the hull proxy. So yes, it is possible to, as long as the shields have enough room between them and the hull, to do what is suggested by Acebravo.