Found Reasonable Use For Nomad

[Met A Demon Once]

I have a planet in my system I visit every so often for Coryzagen but it is a very cold world. So I flew over and set up a Geobay (if that is the correct term) by a couple of abandoned buildings near a trading post. Then used Nomad to hunt the stuff down. I would just get out every so often and scan and then drive to the Coryzagen. Much more efficient than using a ship, then stopping, then scanning, then walk, walk, walk, all the time trying to keep life support up. Only had to charge life support twice and it was very easy to gather all the Coryzagen I wanted plus did a smash and grab at a Depot. Left the Geobay for the next time I need to visit.

[saluzi7]

Good thinking...except.... you can farm Coryzagen.

[Mike]

Originally posted by Met A Demon Once:

I have a planet in my system I visit every so often for Coryzagen but it is a very cold world. So I flew over and set up a Geobay (if that is the correct term) by a couple of abandoned buildings near a trading post. Then used Nomad to hunt the stuff down. I would just get out every so often and scan and then drive to the Coryzagen. Much more efficient than using a ship, then stopping, then scanning, then walk, walk, walk, all the time trying to keep life support up. Only had to charge life support twice and it was very easy to gather all the Coryzagen I wanted plus did a smash and grab at a Depot. Left the Geobay for the next time I need to visit.

I think Nomad is mainly intended to be used on water, and Roamer for land. Not to say you can't use Nomad on land if you want though.

[Blissett]

Originally posted by saluzi7:

Good thinking...except.... you can farm Coryzagen.

A good point, however you can get your coryzagen farm up and running much faster if you gather, say, three or four stacks of the stuff before starting the farm, since each plant takes 100 coryzagen and only gives what, 20ish? So hand gathering at a planet is still a lot less painful using vehicles for populating a decent size farm to get you started.

I still prefer Temerium + Spadonium if farming for cash, but I guess one would need a lot of coryzagen if they wanted to make a pretty base with lots of glass-based decoration.

[Uriel]

I found that using the rover was a decent method for getting Rigogen underwater without having to constantly surface for air or refill my toxic shields. It's slow, but workable.

[p0pt@rt]

Originally posted by Met A Demon Once:

then walk, walk, walk

Thanks, now I've got Rihanna stuck in my head..

[storm]

I use my nomad for this. And yeah u can farm Coryzagen, but I would have to make a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of mission before. I need to repair my Ship which I found. making Glass is one of the most profitable ways

[Yria]

roamer is much better for Rigogen harvesting

[p0pt@rt]

pros and cons.. in a shallow body of water, nomad is the way to go.. if the sea bed is relatively flat, the roamer could work out decently.. unfortunately, in normal conditions, I get more frustrated by the roamer's ability to lift it's nose up and not drive along the ground.. I've found myself often exiting the roamer to swim across a gap, chasm or over a ledge/rock/hump to get to the rigogen on the other side, then getting back in the roamer.. and TBH, if I'm going to be exiting a vehicle, I'll do that with the Nomad and stay towards more shallow waters..

[Met A Demon Once]

I worry about getting stuck with Roamer and then having to swim for shore and I would probably drown before I got there. I had to abandon Roamer on dry land after it fell in a hole. Same could happen while trying to harvest Rigogen. This is the overridding concern of mine. I have never gotten stuck "yet" with Nomad but I have with Roamer.

There is no right or wrong on which one you use. Pick your poisen and hopefully you do not get bit.

[p0pt@rt]

Originally posted by Met A Demon Once:

I worry about getting stuck with Roamer and then having to swim for shore and I would probably drown before I got there. I had to abandon Roamer on dry land after it fell in a hole. Same could happen while trying to harvest Rigogen. This is the overridding concern of mine. I have never gotten stuck "yet" with Nomad but I have with Roamer.

There is no right or wrong on which one you use. Pick your poisen and hopefully you do not get bit.

You can summon your exocraft to you, providing you're close enough to it.. this was designed for specifically the scenario you depicted... need to be able to get the exocraft out of a hole/cave, so the player can exit the craft, go top side, then summon the exocraft to them and continue using it outside the cave once again...

As for swimming, your jetpack refills upon submersion in water.. so if you have to traverse an expanse of water without an exocraft, try to use your jetpack to skim the surface as best as possible (the better you skim, the faster you'll fly).. when your jetpack depletes, you'll fall into the water and refill your jetpack fuel so you can go back to skimming.. and if you're skimming well enough, you won't even fall that deep into the water.. Using this trick, one can cross oceans without having to recharge all of their membranes..