I suspect there would not be another Nomad gun thread after the others we had before but, history repeats itself, no?
I also suspect that there would not be a thread here if folks were not getting angry at being beaten by Nomad guns. I have yet to see a thread started because an opponets ship was too easy to beat. In fact I see most balance threads start after someone is defeated.
For the fighter cannons and blasters. They are converted weapons used since the first Nomad war. The technique was designed by humans to copy thier power source/ammo. I dont care who has them, as long as they got a reason, thats better than "look they do X damage." Theres tons of reason one could come up with, it is a role playing game. Lets not restrict our selves to a few lines of accepted RP and make this a choose your own adventure book. It roleplaying exspect the unexspected.
If any weapon is getting whored its the supernova anti matter cannon, which is based on the battle razor tech which is found on a planet next to a Corsair station and retro engineered by Order techs, so since every bomber out there has one, up to and includeing Xenos, because thier weapons suck. This would be called stacking the deck for PVP by some. I feel no need to regulate Nomad cannons to the players at large as long as there is RP for it. You will be able to tell cause there are some folk who dont know what RP means out there.
In which case they should be guided before being shunned.
When you fly around thinking that every person who has something you dont agree with is in bad RP, you are the problem. You are the one takeing folks out of character to debate an OOC topic.
In short dont worry about them so much. If you dont understand ask the player in question about thier RP or ask them in PMs. Most will give you thier forum name in space. If you cant handle a disagreement privately, and politely then you dont desearve to have it taken seriously.
PS. for references. If the shoe fits wear it = you.