As it stands, everybody and their dog has a ton of Nomad Gunboat Remains. They drop far too quickly; they are faster to collect, even, than Fighter Remains, due to cruisers dropping 5 remains each. Cruisers are not 5 times harder to destroy than gunboats.
I suggest dropping it down to 3 gunboat remains aboard each cruiser.
I'd argue the opposite (about Cruisers not being harder to kill than Gunboats). I made a thread sort of about this a while back. There's a huge discrepancy between the risk/reward when shooting Nomad cruisers compared to other Nomad NPCs. There should be appropriate loot for killing them.
Nomad Cruisers should drop 1 Battleship Remain and 1 Gunboat Remain. Duks should drop 2 BS Remains. Ishtar's should drop 3 BS Remains.