Survey: Nomad Membership (October --- 2009)

[Treewyrm]

One more thing I've totally forgot.

Okay, so let's assume that nomads are completely free to take by anyone, but how it's going to work? By default they're hostile to everyone, meaning you don't even get to dock on their bases. Alright, let's assume then that some missions from Outcasts could potentially positively affect your reputation towards the Nomads. Not that it makes any sense whatsoever, cause the relation between the two is not classified as "allied", but rather neutrality with occasional tensions on both sides. But just for the sake of example let's pretend that there are such missions. So imagine I'm a regular player, I've just bought/downloaded Freelancer, learned there are cool mods around with lots of players and happens to be the most popular one is Discovery. Cool, isn't it? Next thing I do is download one from moddb, since that's the place where most game mods are anyway. I install the mod, launch the game, it nicely updates and lets me in, I go into multiplayer and see one of the servers being highly populated. "That must be it!" - I exclaim and rush to it. From few days to a week I learn Discovery actually allows players to play Nomads. "Awesome!" - I exclaim again, remembering they were those cool looking alien antagonists in the single player campaign, they had those cloaking devices and all, killing stuff and so. After a bit of search in DataStorm or any other tool I find that it's sold on some base in a system X. I run to that system and... Nomad NPCs shoot me on sight and kill me. Sucks, innit? All is not lost, I ask people around in system chat "hey folks, how do I get rep with nomads?", and there will always be a kind soul replying to me "do outcast missions!". Hooray! Now everything is set and I happily do missions for the Outcasts raising my reputation for the Nomads too. Pass a day or two and missions are done, I'm friendly with 'em, dock to their base and buy their ship, their equipment, their ID. "Wow! Cool stuff, bro!"!!

...Now hold everything for a moment. Tell me - what did I miss in this?

First one who answers that REALLY simple question wins a cookie.