Go to Omicron Alpha (Outcast Territory) to the "Unknown" Jumphole surrounded by derelict Outcast ships. Loot the dead ships, and wait around...Nomads come blazing at ya, kill em, and you might get lucky and get a few Nomad cannons.

you can also do this in gamma (corsair space). unkown hole (go thru u might like it), loot ships, shoot nomads, pick up guns, mount guns, kill people.

kergen

are the nomads easy to kill or same as in normal game ive fininsed now and am nearly at level 26 and getting aa heavly fighter from omega 7 system i forgot the name of it
wot are nomad guns are like

i suppose you get yourself a level 10 shield before fighting them
can get nasty.

The nomad guns have the highest damage-per-second value of any usable gun. The Cannon does 20 more damage per sec than the Blaster does, but it fires slower. Both varients, Cannon and Blaster, require 0 energy to fire, so you can keep blasting things forever!

CannonFodder: You will be lucky to get the nomads to drop guns at lvl 26. There is some level threshold you have to be above before they will drop the goods. Before that you just have a bitch of a fight on your hands for no gain.

There's also talk of some sort of graduated system where the higher level the higher percentage chance of them droping a weapon. Either way it is better to be at least in your early 30's level wise before you commit any xenocide.

BTW does anyone have any figures for percentage chance of drop at given level?

y would u care for the percentage? just shoot them down, everyone of them until u got wat u want that is. it's not THAT hard to jag down nomads...

I have found that at Lvl 38, you have to kill 8 Fighters to get 1 weapon.

Winners never Quit, Quitters never Win

Good call, percentage shmercentage Would be nice to know for sure what lvl u had to be at top have any chance tho. 8-1 seems about right for 38, tho maybe a wee bit less, the odd time you get 2 drops from a wave.
I suppose a bitch of a fight is an exageration. Really i mean if you are sloppy on the first pass they might wipe out your shields, which is about as close as it gets to a bitch of a fight with a VHF Gotten too used to the safety of the sabre, maybe i'll trade her in for a startracker and live life on the real edge...
It would be totally sweet if there was a half-size VHF, say 1 class 9 and 2 class 10 mounts but nice and manuverable... maybe a class 8 shield? Anyway thats bugger all to do with this thread i'll shut up.

i got to omicron alpha and got into the jumphole and got 1 nomad cannon i was lvl 22 then i got into the unknown jumphole in omicron gamma and after every fight i got 1-3 nomad cannons/blasters and i was still lvl 22

Lvl 22? To be honest i've never tried it at earlier levels, i missed the unknown jumpsholes on my first exploring run and by the time i got to them i was 33 or 34. After that i read quite a few threads where people said they had killed loads of nomads at lvl 25-28 and got no guns, the consensus being that there was definately a threshold. So after that i never bothered going near nomads till i was 30+. Next time i start a new game i'll check it out.