I haven't played the game for 3+ years, and the craving hits me again. Still remember the cheesiness of MP where you could trade for a couple hours and then ba-da-bing end up being able to afford the best **** thus skipping out nearly the entire game, so to prevent burnout from getting money too fast, I decided to run through the SP campaign.
So I load Discovery 4.84 and start SP, and just like the OP I'm getting hammered at the same mission. Pass it by some miracle, then of course the next one is totally off the charts. Jesus. At least put a warning in the readme file, or the mod's download page, hell even a single sentence on the description will be fine. I did read the included docs, the only mention of SP is about activating Open SP.
Guess I'm gonna have to play another mod, which is a shame since the high level ships I saw being sold in Liberty looked pretty neat. We'll probably still play it in our LAN games, but I was really looking forward to exploring the campaign again. Oh well.
" In Defeat, Malice; In Victory, Revenge! "