It's been generally consented that they drop shield batteries to keep the game fun, seeing as how it can be expensive or sometimes outright impossible to get a new supply of them near the end of the campaign. In order to keep gamers from becoming frustrated because they cannot survive through one of the final set of missions, the designers made shield batteries lootable from these interceptors/fighters.

Nanobots are a better choice...it doesn't take money to repair a shield, but your hull takes a chunk out of your wallet if you let it get beat up too much. Shield batteries don't have enough charge in them to be worth their price(There really should be an option to just use one, just to kick-start your shields but not fully recharge).

Of course, Nomad ships seem to be huge on special energy effects, so the batteries could be used for something...other than shields.

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Reaper: $200,000,000.
Rockets: $100,000
The look on that pilot's face when you launch a full pod of screamers up his tailpipe: priceless
-->In 60 years, I wanna be one of those cranky guys sitting on his porch with a shotgun, yelling at the fools to get off my lawn...

i agree with magicks, whenever your just fighting the nomads if your really getting beat up you could use up all of your shield batteries very quickly depending on what ship you have. If your in a light fighter that cant hold that many shield batteries or nano bots then you need to constant supply or your going to die...

Nomads drop shield batteries? Maybe in the SP game then. All they drop when I blast them near the jump hole to their systems in an occasional laser or blasters.




Juni: "Trent, we've got to go faster!"

I WISH I could get them to drop weapons!!! All I EVER get is bat/bots.

Bulldog

pfft you're lucky, I rarely get anything!! And i've only ever seen them drop weapons once. ONCE!!!

I must be REAL lucky... in 15 minutes I had 10 assorted nomad guns...
WOOT!!!

Meh

to get them to drop weapons get near jump hole kill 3-4 nomad wings and get around 2 nomad weapons or whatever.

i ate a booger so you ate a turd.

Have You seen that the guns on nomads ships are an attempt to adapt human guns with nomads energy.
Why nomad ships use human guns (even adapted) ???
And who try to adapt human technology with nomad energy ?????
And these ships are created by culture, they are something living.

There is some really unexplicable things with nomads.

Come on you guys, it's just a game.

To all the n00bs I've flamed before...
- Have You Been A Hero Lately? -
The Titan Flies Like A Cow

Yes, a mysterious game...
So, its a game too to search answers.