help please

[iambored]

well, i got a mission to destroy some cartel patrol or something, i currently have a boron barracuda and the enemy is 4 barracudas and a boron hydra

the reason why i am a bit annoyed now is that they all have max speeds exceeding normal stats for those ships, i have destroyed the escorts and got the hydra down to 20% hull but it started to go away every now and then and while it's out of range it recharges shields and goes right for me again (it's been like that for about 40 minutes now)

and the weird thing is that the damn barracuda can go about 260m/s (over 300 undamaged) and my ship wont go any faster then 204

i already tried getting my m5 to distract it and it just does the maneuvers and wont fire

so, the question is, can i do something like modify the save file to make the m6 obey the speed limit?
same thing happens with the argon novas i got by telling the local factories im under attack, just maneuvers, not a single shot
i even flew close to a colossus and it got shot a few dozen times by the hydra and refuses to fire back

[devilofbelfast]

hi, the easiest way i can think of is to use mass drivers to damage the hull further to slow him down. if your looking a scripting answer, open the script editor and start a new script. write it as This>Add engine tunings -10 and run the script selecting whatever ship you want on the sector map.

if that didnt work let me know and ill fire up x2 and investigate further