[headdie]

• First give all beams the "no pierce shields" flag.
• Give all beams a damage type, say "Beam."
• Create two shield armor types, say "Normal" and "Antibeam." You'll need 3.6.11 for this.
• In armor.tbl, make Normal shields take 0 damage from Beam-damage weapons with a Shield Piercing Percentage of 1.
• Make Antibeam shields take full damage from Beam-damage weapons with a Shield Piercing Percentage of 0.
• You need to give every single shielded ship either one or the other of these shield armor types, so that on most ships beams will still pierce shields.
• The ship whose shields you want Beams not to pierce should have the Antibeam Shield Armor Type.

I now did this and it seems to work quite fine so far.

Just one issue: I have a ship with 8000 shield points, but an SRed (with inflicts a damage per pulse of 2926 in my mod) can penetrate that shield with less than one shot. Why?

what difficulty level is the game set to

[SF-Junky]

Medium.

[Wanderer]

Shields have four segments, maximum strength of each segment is (unless using outdated wanderer branch builds) maximum shield strength / 4.

[SF-Junky]

So that means I have to multiplicate with 0.25 in the armor.tbl?