What are NOMAD ships?

DarkLordCthulhu · Nov 14, 2014

Hi,

So ive just accepted a mission in Eranin to kill 7 "NOMAD" ships in system Asellus Primus.

What are NOMAD ships?

The faction doesnt seem to line up.... thanks in advance for help.

Monk · Nov 14, 2014

Who let those pesky things out of the Sirius sector?

I'm calling Trent.

EDIT: http://freelancer.wikia.com/wiki/Nomad

Weps · Nov 14, 2014

I heard you can find them in USSes but haven't seen one myself.

Captain Howdy · Nov 14, 2014

Nomad for the uninitiated.

DarkLordCthulhu · Nov 14, 2014

Captain Howdy said:
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Nomad for the uninitiated.

lol

Any chance of a helpful answer anyone?

Karl Agathon · Jun 13, 2015

Yeah, just signed up for the same type of "kill nomads" mission and I have no idea what I'm looking for. FD, please be more specific with mission descriptions!

Vasious · Jun 13, 2015

I wonder if their chatter gives them away?

Since NPCs are talkative now.

That said, "Mission Target" will show up when you scan them.

Nomads, you might look for convoys in USSes at a guess?

DrakeAurum · Jun 13, 2015

Vasious said:
I wonder if their chatter gives them away?

Since NPCs are talkative now.

I think you're right. The other day while passing through an otherwise-uninhabited system there were a couple of NPC ships near the star, making remarks like "No matter how dangerous, we will find a safe place to live. "

MegaJohnny · Jun 13, 2015

DrakeAurum said:
I think you're right. The other day while passing through an otherwise-uninhabited system there were a couple of NPC ships near the star, making remarks like "No matter how dangerous, we will find a safe place to live. "

So basically the mission is to kill a bunch of people trying to escape civil war. That's pretty hardcore.

shadragon · Jun 13, 2015

Karl Agathon said:
Yeah, just signed up for the same type of "kill nomads" mission and I have no idea what I'm looking for. FD, please be more specific with mission descriptions!

Yes, it's all Frontiers fault.

They must have held a gun to your head and made you click on a mission you didn't completely understand ahead of time.

Karl Agathon · Jun 15, 2015

shadragon said:
Yes, it's all Frontiers fault.

They must have held a gun to your head and made you click on a mission you didn't completely understand ahead of time.

Why so mad bro? Chill out. I was simply stating mission description is a bit vague, I didn't about the mission or made a big deal out of it or accuse FD of my taking the mission. What?! You dyslexic or something? Did divine providence grace you with a special understanding of my post even I wasn't aware of? For some reason, the more I read your statement, the madder I get. People like you with statements like that up forums.

MADmanOne · Jun 15, 2015

MegaJohnny said:
So basically the mission is to kill a bunch of people trying to escape civil war. That's pretty hardcore.

Yep, but thats a good point about elite. You can be good or evil. I find the whole Archon Delaine faction pretty hardcore as well

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I am more for the good stuff, so I only kill pirates and leave nomads, authority, bounty hunters and traders alone

. I have seen some nomad missions but don't accept them. I believe DrakeAurum is correct, that "safe place to live" chatter sounds like nomads.

jgm · Jun 15, 2015

Fly around and scan ships until you find one with 'mission target' in red letters on the bottom left corner.

Feel free to report back to the forums as to who they are.

Jezzah · Jun 15, 2015

On a similar note I accepted a job to kill 7 activists.

No idea what they are I scanned everything in SC for over hour, dropped into USS etc nothing flagged as a mission target. I also interdicted and killed anything that was dropping comms to me with no success either. Got a fantastic bounty to keep hidden for the experiment.

So avoid those activist missions unless someone has a confirmed spotting

teaurn · Jun 15, 2015

Captain Howdy said:
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Nomad for the uninitiated.

So that's where my illegal Lavian Brandy still ended up!

Trinity Star · Jun 16, 2015

With the new bounty system anything other than pirate ships is too much hassle if your care about being locked out of that system.

Muss · Jun 16, 2015

Saw the "find a place to live" chatter myself recently...

CMDR Hagglebeard · Jun 16, 2015

VictoriaG said:
With the new bounty system anything other than pirate ships is too much hassle if your care about being locked out of that system.

Bounties aren't that bad. I'm with Archon Delaine, and in his HQ in Harma I have a 137k bounty. I still go there quite regularly, just act like a smuggler would. Not that smuggling's hard.

Trinity Star · Jun 16, 2015

It's okay I just took two 'kill x number of pirate missions' totalling 1.7m payout

KellyR · Jun 17, 2015

I'm wondering the same thing myself about these nomads. But I won't accept the mission until I know what they are. That's just asking for trouble. I don't take a mission unless I completely understand the objective, and in the case of a kill mission, know what the target is. Occasionally, I'll miss completing one, but not often.