You can tell if they have explosions if on the ammo you buy for them, if it says explosion radius i think.

thats only valid for missiles, isnt it?

Must be, I cant find any info on that on any non-missile-mine weapon hehe

I got 2 blasters and 2 cannons now, without editing the ini files m8

yeah, and i shot about 170 nomads (90 of them without landing or changing systems) and got absolutely NOTHING!!

well... dont flame me for this... but i can make it so nomad weps are sold at manhattan. If you want to know more email me at [email protected] or talk on aim TheHonestPizza . Its cheating, but its not as bad as jumping from lvl 1 to 38 as ive seen far too many people do. You still have to pay for them.

I heard you need to be at least level 32 to get nomad weapons, they are not droped if you have a lower level and it might even be that you get more if you are well over 32 (but that I don't know)

lvl 36, i get 3 out of the 4 nomads, sometimes even double drops

you gotta be at least lvl 34.

the higher your level, the more frequent drops...i have so many that i just sell them to repair my ship.

less than lvl 34 -> i got nothing
lvl 34 -> found one
lvl 35 -> found another
lvl 36 -> didn't fight them
lvl 37 -> didn't fight either
lvl 38 -> a drop every 3 kills.

Well I personally feel like there has been an increase in blaster / cannon drops from Nomads ever since I started owning them.

I think with any ship you blow up with the exception of PvP.. If you target their engines. Or easier still, just get on their tail before opening fire. You are more likely to spare the weapons.

So when hunting Nomads.. Just ride their tail. Don't open fire head on.. You will also notice the other Nomads have a hard time hitting you while your chasing one of their buddies.

Once I had all four Nomads drop.. All Nomads in a wave of four dropped a weapon.. This may just be a coincidence, but when that happened I remember I took out all four of them one after the other on my first pass.. Meaning I got on their asses one after the other w/o any of them able to shake me. They all seemed to drop a weapon.. It was like getting a bonus for killing them faster.

Dunno though.

I pick nomad weapons up all the time, I play on E2 so if you need a nomad weapon on that server please ask.

"To be or not to be that is the question"
Hamlet

those nomad lasers sure have a heck of a punch, was probably why they arent droppable by them in the game

I play on c4's playhouse...if anyone wants nomad weapons I get about 6 dropped every 15 minutes there....I just give em away since they're not worth selling

Go to the nomads with a buddy, loose an hour, and both will have weapons for all, worked on me