Level 31 + Eagle + 90 something dead nomads

    I´m equally stumped. I got a Sabre, level 38, four class 10 weapons and two class 9 weapons and it doesn´t matter how many dozens of Nomads I kill, it doesn´t matter where, it doesn´t even matter if I unmount some of my guns or use missiles, they never drop anything. I´m about to ask a friend to escort me and have him kill some, perhaps he´ll have more luck.

    If you would read some of the other posts about nomads you would also note that you have to be careful when you destroy them, because you usually blow them up rather hard core and a lot of time you will destroy their guns in the process as you fire upon their dead remains. Also, I´ve destroyed about 40 as well with and got no guns. Its really a matter of luck. Be patient, jump back and forth between the systems. I found this gets more more guns then waiting on waves. If you have lvl 10 shields its really a matter of how many nanobots you can hold for how many waves you can take on. But Try the system hoping, worked for me.

    I think the level 35 thing is in MP only, I´ve heard of people at level ~25 getting Nomad weapons in SP with no problem. Although I could be wrong. Can´t be too hard to get to level 35 can it?

    well still not a single weapon from the nomads here I have counted over 35 waves of 4 system hopped after 15 waves Dunno, guess I will go for level 35 to see if this makes a difference. thanks for all the feedback

    Killed alot of them in omicron gamma (around the unknown jump hole. And in between i steel some weapons of the corsair fighters floating there. So in 1 run i killed 16 nomads it gave me 4 nomad weapons . so got me a titan with 2x diamond back and 2x nomad guns <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>) Hmmm what does this button do ?? .....

    Where is the jump hole to the new irak system ? I think there hiding something there :)

    no idea about the level 35 limit though, since most ppl only go after those nomads when they are at lvl 38 like me <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> and they drop one weapon everyother one i kill

    Ya know..life is a game, a very complex game, the main difference from a computer game is that the game of life has no save reload button...

    I edited (i no this is the spoiler not editing forum) in some of the Osiris in, this makes the nomads easy to kill, and edited the weapon_equip.ini file to say for each of the nomad guns, turrets and missiles to say &quot;looatble = true&quot;, so now usually not bothereing wat level you are you can get all the weapons they have, altho some are invisible tehy can be equiped to most lvl 10 ships. This does include their cruises disruptors and missiles, sltho the missiles are only found not actually bought coz i dont no how to do that. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> but the weapons are wikked.

    A starfighter in dock is safe, but that`s not what they`re built for

    I made it to level 35 then went to omicron gamma to give it a try every other wave just about was dropping blasters I got a few cannons also Dunno if it was just something random .. but I feel that level 35 does make a difference (or rather SOME level between 31 and 35 makes a difference) I killed probably 160 nomad ships at level 31 with no drops do missions to get to 35 and they are dropping all over the place thanks for the help guys

    ok, i still dont really understand the concept of getting nomad weapons. i was level 29-32 when i first started shooting nomads. i was at omicron gamma and shot like 170 of them and got NOTHING AT ALL. then i was *really* pissed and decided to leave and fly around and make some more money. after levelling to like 34 (could have been 35 aswell) i went to omicron alpha and there suddenly i got like 1 gun out of 1,5 waves. i really dont know what happened, but it very seems like that it IS depending on the level in multiplayer.

    I went back and loaded my game with the level 31 on it then I went to level 32 and killed nomads (10 waves) dropped nothing made it to level 33 and the same when I made it to level 34 they dropped soemtimes (about 1 out of 5 - 6 waves) level 35 they drop often hope this helps

    Really seems like these weapons shoul dnot be in the game as they are just .. ´too´ powerful kind of unbalancing with the 0 energy lost and the very decent damage actually .. now im thinking about it more i think that there are other guns wich allow you to kill quicker and therfore in the hands of a more skilled pilot would be the better way to go

    I get tired of reading what most of the other people say, since there are like a bazillion threads about this little thing. I don´t know how you kill the nomads, but a light touch is all you need. I picked up 8 nomad weapons in 3 waves. It is absolutely not hard, except I only seem to get cannons (got like 2 blasters). This is SP-game at level 32 (right after I got my beloved eagle). When you kill them, just take that last shot (not a burst). It´s easy to blow up what they drop before they scatter in time for you to see it. I mean, how often do you pick up weapons from other fighters? I get loads of weapons every battle. Good money, especially with the corsair missions against the bounty hunters. Did that to get from level 28 in my falcon to level 32 in an eagle. It´s cearly not impossible. And a side note, I find battling the bounty hunters (with non-nomad weapons) a hella lot harder than an equal number of nomads. But that´s just me I guess. I rarely get hit by the nomads ;-) PS. I was carrying 4 angelittos MKII (i think) and 2 THORs when I fought the nomads. So they weren´t exactly &quot;light&quot; weapons either. Edited by - Sapper_Park on 18-03-2003 04:24:15