I dont know why the nomads should be harder now than they were in 1.7, i have done no changes to them.However I can imagine the problem you experience. The Altair systems were meant to be pretty hard to get through and when i created those systems (3 years ago) i did intentionally not pay attention to spawn free zones around jumpholes and gates. The newly created systems have different kinds of encounter zones which work better. The old ones (about 10 systems) unfortunatly still have the old zon…