Escorting the Galetea through the asteroids

[EV3]

It's been 15+ years since I've played this game, and I'm stuck on the mission where you have to get the capital ship Galetea through the asteroids. It's very early on, something like mission 6, and I can't beat it. Every time the ship gets to the slip space node, it just bouces around and never makes the jump, eventually being destroyed because I can't destroy every damned asteroid. Is there something I'm missing here, or is there anything else you guys can do o help me out? Thank you in advance.

[Hermann von Salza]

yup, I am having the same issue. I don't think I've ever had this problem 15 years ago or whenever I first found this game, makes you wonder how these things suddenly arise. Did some googling and it seems you can try to edit the game files with FRED and set the necessity of the Galatea hitting the waypoint EXACTLY (i'm sure this has something to do with EU regulations) to the Galatea only needing to be within, say, 200 metres of the waypoint to warp out. Does 'hacking' the game files with FRED work if you bought the game off Steam? No idea.