0 Damage Weapons and Shields

[XionGaTaosenai]

Apparently if you have a weapon that does 0 damage and doesn't bypass shields, then when it hits a shield it will be absorbed without stripping the shields at all. Is there any way to correct this, and have a weapon that does no hull damage but interacts with shields as if it does?

[Kaerius]

This could work:
Normal damage = 1
Hull damage = -1

I'm not entirely sure though. (In any case that should still do crew and system damage).

[XionGaTaosenai]

I'm not sure how you specifically denote hull damage, or if you even can do that. In any case,
"<hullDamage>-1</hullDamage>" doesn't work.

[Sleeper Service]

There is no way around this as far as we currently know.

[5thHorseman]

One possible workaround, make it do Ion Damage along with whatever other specific damage you want, but no regular damage.

[Gencool]

There are loads of specific damage attacks tags here;
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=17122

Try setting 'damage' to 1 and everything else to 0 (0 turns off damage, irrc, whilst -1 actively repairs)