You're basically looking for ships that don't belong to any of the minor factions in the target system. However, I don't know much about the frequency of them appearing. I've taken a few "kill the nomad" missions without problems, though the one I have currently is being painful. I've already spent 2 hours searching the target system, and nothing. None in signal sources, none in supercruise. At least I have a week on this current mission before the deadline.
What are NOMAD ships?
- Thread starter DarkLordCthulhu
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I took on one of these missions the other day just to check out what they were. I was kinda hoping it would be the blue-eyed infected humans or the blue Nomad Ships with their self-powered weapons that maybe could be salvaged.
Unfortunately when I found the mission targets it was just a convoy, the one who's NPC spam the "this place is too dangerous ... " etc messages - So they were just refugees, I wasn't going to get a murder bounty for that so I abandoned the mission.
Unfortunately when I found the mission targets it was just a convoy, the one who's NPC spam the "this place is too dangerous ... " etc messages - So they were just refugees, I wasn't going to get a murder bounty for that so I abandoned the mission.
Just commenting in case anyone else searches for 'NOMAD' as I have.
Picked up this mission today without looking into the 'nomads'. Found them in a USS, chatting about 'drifting amongst the stars' etc.
There were 6 ships, but only 3 of them were mission targets. Only shown as targets when looking into the 'contacts' list.
I had to kill 9 of them in 2hours, so wiped those 3 out, had to kill the 3 other guys, got a bounty on myself from all 6 and gave up in the end!!
For 'nomads' read as 'gonads'!
Picked up this mission today without looking into the 'nomads'. Found them in a USS, chatting about 'drifting amongst the stars' etc.
There were 6 ships, but only 3 of them were mission targets. Only shown as targets when looking into the 'contacts' list.
I had to kill 9 of them in 2hours, so wiped those 3 out, had to kill the 3 other guys, got a bounty on myself from all 6 and gave up in the end!!
For 'nomads' read as 'gonads'!
Didn't need the link and let out a smile when reading "I'm calling trent"
Can I get an Anubis in ED?
On topic aren't nomads those guys saying "we gotta get outta here" and such
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For clarity purposes, this is my understanding of Nomads, as I got this kind of mission too (I had to kill 42 of them!)
Nomads, as Wikipedia describes them, are "people with no settled home, who moves from place to place as a way of obtaining food, finding pasture for livestock, or otherwise making a living."
In Elite: Dangerous, they can be found as convoys in the instances within Unidentified Signal Sources (which makes them a hard target to find, as it can take a while for an USS to appear, and it might not even have nomads in it!)
They fly the same ships NPC traders tend to fly, and will commonly say phrases such as "are we in civilised space yet?" or be confused as to which star they should of followed. These types of NPCs can be mission targets for certain missions found on bulletin boards of nearby systems.
Commonly, they do not have a wanted status and you will get fined and receive a Criminal bounty if you destroy them. Sometimes, however, a Nomad can have a wanted status on it, oddly. killing any Nomads (marked as "Mission Target") Will contribute to the mission (as long as its within the system specified)
Just like normal NPCs, they can have all sorts of cargo in them, including rare commodities from nearby systems and unique cargo such as 'Assault Plans' and 'Trinkets of Hidden Fortune' (which is worth only around 1000 credits, however it is a funny novelty cargo to have).
I haven't completed the mission I got yet, but I found it in Liaedin (Fortress Anderton) and I had to kill 42 of these hard-to-find NPCs within 3 days, and it only paid just under 1,000,000 credits, but did have a high reputation impact (and medium influence impact). For me, it took half a day or so to get 33 kills. (I'll add a picture of the mission sometime tomorrow.)
In my opinion, only take these types of missions if you think you would like searching within Unidentified Signal Sources, and/or role-playing as a mercenary who has been hired by Donald Trump to kill space Mexicans/immigrants.
Edit: too lazy to edit images, so here are screenshots of interfaces related to the mission I got. http://imgur.com/a/Fzbvt
Nomads, as Wikipedia describes them, are "people with no settled home, who moves from place to place as a way of obtaining food, finding pasture for livestock, or otherwise making a living."
In Elite: Dangerous, they can be found as convoys in the instances within Unidentified Signal Sources (which makes them a hard target to find, as it can take a while for an USS to appear, and it might not even have nomads in it!)
They fly the same ships NPC traders tend to fly, and will commonly say phrases such as "are we in civilised space yet?" or be confused as to which star they should of followed. These types of NPCs can be mission targets for certain missions found on bulletin boards of nearby systems.
Commonly, they do not have a wanted status and you will get fined and receive a Criminal bounty if you destroy them. Sometimes, however, a Nomad can have a wanted status on it, oddly. killing any Nomads (marked as "Mission Target") Will contribute to the mission (as long as its within the system specified)
Just like normal NPCs, they can have all sorts of cargo in them, including rare commodities from nearby systems and unique cargo such as 'Assault Plans' and 'Trinkets of Hidden Fortune' (which is worth only around 1000 credits, however it is a funny novelty cargo to have).
I haven't completed the mission I got yet, but I found it in Liaedin (Fortress Anderton) and I had to kill 42 of these hard-to-find NPCs within 3 days, and it only paid just under 1,000,000 credits, but did have a high reputation impact (and medium influence impact). For me, it took half a day or so to get 33 kills. (I'll add a picture of the mission sometime tomorrow.)
In my opinion, only take these types of missions if you think you would like searching within Unidentified Signal Sources, and/or role-playing as a mercenary who has been hired by Donald Trump to kill space Mexicans/immigrants.
Edit: too lazy to edit images, so here are screenshots of interfaces related to the mission I got. http://imgur.com/a/Fzbvt
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A bunch of space Gypsies in airtight caravans.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to collect their tears.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to collect their tears.
Ah good old Freelancer. Almost 20 years old game, still works fine on Win8.1.
I remember going after Nomad Ships so I can salvage their weapons and mount them on mine.
I wish we could do the same in E: D, salvage weapons and sell or mount them on our ships.
And Nomad guns would be awesome here. No energy drain, remember?
Juni in Freelancer with Crossfire Mod...
It was worth risking going into remote and dangerous territories just to obtain those weapons.
Hopefully E: D will feature something like that, maybe once we have Thargoids.