Back to playing for me --- and I finally got the Constrictor mission!! (Just short of 200K points -- but as we know, points have nothing to do with it).
Actually, Fangrim, you were right on target: 63 jumps in galaxy 2 and the mission is triggered.
More specifically: In the SARA-Cheat, there is byte A3. The initial value of A3 is 40 when you start off in Lave (40 is hexadecimal for 64). The value will decrease after each hyperjump _but only_ after you performed an intergalactic hyper jump, first. And indeed, once it reaches 0, the constrictor mission is triggered.
But that's not the _only_ requirement that has to be met: I created a new commander, cheated myself to everything and used an intergalactic hyperjump (on my first jump in the game) to go to galaxy 2. As expected, the value for A3 was 3F then -- 63 jumps to go. Great, I thought, and reduced the value to 00 (by editing it directly, while still in space). Upon docking, however, I was _not_ presented with the mission.
Why?
Two possibilities come to mind, and I have to test them both:
1. I should have reduced the number to 01 and actually perform 1 "real" hyperjump in galaxy 2.
2. A rating of harmless is just too low to be send on any mission. Maybe I'll have to experiment with different ratings (there is a byte in sara to control the rating; but the mission triggers might still include a score threshhold; so I'll have to try "hacking" both ways).
I'll keep you posted...
Oh, and out of curiosity: In my real game, for complete mission briefing in my Constrictor mission, I have to go to "Ramaan" ---- the system on the far lower right corner of the galaxy. Is the system random or always the same?