Airships

Sylvance

Who else would like to see airships or air balloons introduced into Achaea?

Nemutaur

Uh yeah this is never going to happen, didn't Tecton/Cardan/Sarapis say so already?

Sylvance

Did they say why? Link me.

Jovolo

Because it's stupid

Eld

If deathsights from a while back (during the Bal'met event, iirc) are to be believed, the atavians already have airships. Can't find anything official from the admin on the idea, but my google-fu is not strong.

Blujixapug

This would pretty obviously be the best thing ever. Airships. Sky pirates. Mooring masts for zeppelins. Archipelagos of floating islands. Cloud oceans. Ugh I'm salivating on my keyboard.

I doubt it will happen unless Tecton pulls a Tila Tequila and decides that Achaea actually will go steampunk after all. But it is nice to imagine.

Exelethril

Blujixapug said:

This would pretty obviously be the best thing ever. Airships. Sky pirates. Mooring masts for zeppelins. Archipelagos of floating islands. Cloud oceans. Ugh I'm salivating on my keyboard.

I doubt it will happen unless Tecton pulls a Tila Tequila and decides that Achaea actually will go steampunk after all. But it is nice to imagine.

Navigation and air ships could work similarly to the way ships do at present too(but not quite) around those floating islands, would be awesome and appeal more to equality in the Vastar versus Neraeos mythology if Achaea had more sky islands(and more bashing grounds).

Might generate a lot of income for IRE too since owning an airship would be the "in" thing on launch. Steampunk isn't that foreign to Achaea either, ie. Clockwork Island.

Arditi

Only if I can ignite arrows and snipe said airship.

Doing so causes everyone in the local area to yell "Oh, the humanity!"

Blujixapug

I think if you made it like the wilderness map's ocean but with a z-axis too, it would just be 20 times as big and 20 times as empty. Sailing already has some serious flaws in terms of its size/scale, and the difficulty of encountering other ships, making it feel empty. I can only see aeronautics multiplying those problems. I can't think of a better way to do it though.

Eld

Arditi said:

Only if I can ignite arrows and snipe said airship.

Doing so causes everyone in the local area to yell "Oh, the humanity!"

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Dontarion

Just no.  Ships are bad enough.  YOU CAN"T FLY THROUGH THE CLOUDS BECAUSE THEY WILL DISRUPT YOUR FLYINGNESS.

Cooper

You have the most ridiculous ideas.

Sylvance

Cooper said:

You have the most ridiculous ideas.

You were my best idea, Cooper. It has, indeed, been steadily downhill since your conception.

Xith

Nemutaur said:

Uh yeah this is never going to happen, didn't Tecton/Cardan/Sarapis say so already?

Actually the last I heard of this idea, Tecton was musing with it.

But it's more of a "if they figure out how" feature, if anything. Don't think any amount of idea'ing will help as no player should be able to determine how it'd be implemented, as in wilderness movement and so on.

It most likely graduates into steampunk and stuff too. Not quite period-appropriate.

I'm in favour of the idea regardless because it'd allow for air raids and stuff. (It was brought up at a NoT session after discussing naval bombardment and sea invasions again, and how landlocked cities would be excluded from it all)

And Tears of Polaris was halted due to something with flight mechanics if I remember?

Ellodin

Blujixapug said:

I doubt it will happen unless Tecton pulls a Tila Tequila and decides that Achaea actually will go steampunk after all. But it is nice to imagine.

wtf is pulling a Tila Tequila

Vadimuses

Airships you say?

Delphinus

There are lots of things I adore to bits. Steampunk is probably near the top. Post-apocalyptic and dying earth stories are two more. None of these things mesh perfectly with Achaea, at least not without fundamentally changing the setting.

And really, why make ships even more irrelevant?

Blujixapug

Ellodin said:

Blujixapug said:

I doubt it will happen unless Tecton pulls a Tila Tequila and decides that Achaea actually will go steampunk after all. But it is nice to imagine.

wtf is pulling a Tila Tequila

Doing so much drugs that you have a stroke and transform from slutty reality show star to delusional paranoid schizophrenic, and start making sincere blog posts about reptile people and Truth Seekers and Warriors of the Light and how the Illuminati is blocking your Youtube uploads.

Berenene

Arditi said:

Only if I can ignite arrows and snipe said airship.

Doing so causes everyone in the local area to yell "Oh, the humanity!"

It will have to be a forced action, there will be no way to avoid yelling it.

Kinilan

The hell is this filth?

Korben

Yes to airships, and a denizen called Syd that sells them.

Dunn

Nein

Kyrra

Yes to airships in a dragon only area so they can fly around and nuke them from the sky in pretty breathstream attacks.

Katzchen

I'd like to see airships brought in as ferries to far off destinations. We already have ships for player transport.

Berenene

Katzchen said:

I'd like to see airships brought in as ferries to far off destinations. We already have ships for player transport.

Actually, I wouldn't mind this.  It would cost a little more, but get you there somewhat quicker.

Katzchen

Berenene said:

Katzchen said:

I'd like to see airships brought in as ferries to far off destinations. We already have ships for player transport.

Actually, I wouldn't mind this.  It would cost a little more, but get you there somewhat quicker.

Yes, one to Meropis would be nice. More expensive, but faster. Or to undiscovered continents.

Rheve

Eww. We thought regular ships would be a grand idea too. Look where that got us. Please, no more ships of any sort. Thanks!

Ourania

I keep all the airships locked up in a huge vault in the moon. No airships for you.

Zii

Micro Zepplins

Pffffffffffftttttttt.  Like a fart moving across the sky.

Berenene

Ourania said:

I keep all the airships locked up in a huge vault in the moon. No airships for you.

To verify this, I suggest we send @Vanye to the moon, again, to confirm the existence of said vault.

Sylvance

Katzchen said:

Berenene said:

Katzchen said:

I'd like to see airships brought in as ferries to far off destinations. We already have ships for player transport.

Actually, I wouldn't mind this.  It would cost a little more, but get you there somewhat quicker.

Yes, one to Meropis would be nice. More expensive, but faster. Or to undiscovered continents.

That really is a great idea. Make it so that it leaves on a schedule though, rather than at the whim of adventurers. This could also be just the mechanism for an inter-continental postal service, which I remember some folks asking for a little while back.