Disable 0 armor ships?

I find it difficult or impossible to disable certain ships, such as the confed patrol ship and the alien ships.
Is it impossible to disable these ships in the basic game or am I using too forceful weapons?

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It's impossible; w/out armor, the ship loses all structural integrity when the shields go down.

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OpenGL Avara!

AIM: EVAndrewM

Confucious say; "Man who stand on toilet is high on pot."

Thanks Andrew M. Would that mean that there is no way to obtain an alien ship without plugins?

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Well, you could give the Aliens maybe 10 armor with resedit and the templates. It'd actually technically make them harder, and you could still disable them.

~S~

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Small animal kamikaze attack on power supplies

Could I have an order of Discboard with that?

Andrew is right (I can't believe I said that, heh), without editing the ship resource or using a plug-in (which is just the edited resource in a seperate file in this case), you cannot capture them in a straight game.