How to be Nomad

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Are ALL Nomads ships, or is it just some of them? Does anyone even know?

See nomad lore.

If it's all of them, then a) Nomads should *definitely* start with enough money to buy a ship, and b) This doesn't rule out the possibility of someone developing enough relationship with a Nomad to cooperate with it. Plus, since we don't know much about nomad science, and they may as well know a lot about our biology and technology, they could potentially assimilate a pilot -- especially if they're programmed to "evolve" via "continual service improvement".

See nomad lore.

If it's not all of them, then who's flying the Nomad ship? It's a nomad that's not a ship who's flying it. If that's the case, then it's conceivable that someone could, possibly needing extensive genetic re-engineering, (likely attainable via strong positive relationship), fly a Nomad ship.

Again,see nomad lore.

Because of "i wanna fly nomad ship...." there was no indie nomads back in time,and it was good!!!

First of all, this sentence doesn't make sense; but if I'm interpreting you correctly, you're wrong about lack of individuality being a good thing in any case, even for [especially for] role play. Also, aren't you part of The Order? If so, it makes sense that you would want the Nomads to be impossibly lame.

Ill paraphrase:
Playing as nomad is not recommended for new players at all!Nomads ships used to be given via admins only.
No,im not order.

Thanks for the post. The nomad lore is like an hour of reading, when some of these replies have led me to believe all that's typical for a Nomad is to ~*|talk funny|*~ and shoot players in Omicron (not that difficult, very little behavioral variety). How about this: you go read War and Peace, and then explain again why Nomads can't afford to buy any of their own ships.

No. Explaining more is unnecessary. It seems the goal is to keep Nomads reserved for players who have been in another faction for a long time. Doesn't make much sense strictly from a "game-universe" perspective, since the way they've set it up breaks the fourth wall mid-game as soon as you realize you're optionless. If you're not concerned with making the in-universe mechanics self-sufficient for keeping lore alive, then this kind of external limitation doesn't need to make sense. The game is only partly played within Freelancer, and mostly takes place on the forums; I get it now.

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