How to trivially defeat anti-shield weapon equipped fleets

[jim]

I know it is a band-aid solution, but can someone tell me why it would be hard to make anti-shield weapons unable to target fighters?

As it currently is, no AI can be scripted to use anti-shield weapons w/o setting them up for this exploit. Nor can I, in moi vs AI games use shielded fighters w/o undue advantage if such could be the case.

Similarly, I cannot use anti-shield weapons because most of the AI races use at least some fighters. For all the statements that PDC is too powerful, stacks 20 - 50 double-shielded fighters do not die very easily to PDC. Since they can have CSM Vs or the parasite equivalents in their wake, it can get tough to dispose of such fighters w/o the ability of having non-PDCs begin their attrition beyond the short range of PDCs.

I like anti-shield weapons, and cannot really use them because of this BBBUUUGGGGGG!