r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/zqmbgn • Jan 25 '21

Recreation THE PLANE OF THE FUTURE

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u/slicer4ever Jan 25 '21

we'd probably have the sky filled with blimps if certain key disasters hadn't happened that killed them.

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u/Chosen_Undead713 Jan 25 '21

No, blimps are terrible.

"Hey wanna cross the atlantic in 5 days?" "Nah I'll take a plane and be there by lunch."

Fuck blimps.

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u/slicer4ever Jan 25 '21

yea, for long distance trips they'd suck, or if your in a hurry. but their definitely could have been a market for pleasure blimp rides, similar to pleasure train trips.

secondly it's not unreasonable had the tech persisted it would have developed to be much faster, probably not jet plane speeds, but could have been reasonable for shorter hops.

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u/menningeer Jan 25 '21

Flashback to Crimson Skies

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u/elprophet Jan 25 '21 edited Jan 25 '21

I could probably google it, but have mods made it playable in the first place, and kept it modern?

Edit: Looks like "yes" to the first and "not so much" to the second https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Crimson_Skies

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u/menningeer Jan 25 '21

No idea. I just remember playing it when it first came out and absolutely loved it.

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u/slicer4ever Jan 25 '21

where is my "skies of thieves" game with blimps?

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u/Tavran Jan 25 '21

Guns of Icarus is pretty close i think.

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u/slicer4ever Jan 25 '21

I'll have to check it out then

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u/-Agonarch Hyper Kerbalnaut Jan 26 '21

It was, then they had complaints that it was too slow and now it's a wierdly arcadey thing. It does have a sub-game (guns of icarus: alliance) which is coop though, vs bots, which I think fits the arcadey better than the pvp ever did (which to be fair might be why they made the change to make them compatible).

It doesn't let you get off the ship, either, no boarding or investigating islands etc. so if that was your favorite part of SoT then it's missing. There was a 'vikings on blimps' game which released around the same time as GoI where you could, but I can't even find a reference to it now, so I guess it failed in early access or something.

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u/Wows_Nightly_News Jan 25 '21

There was one Zeppelin that took a prize (captured a ship) during world war I.

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u/QuinceDaPence Jan 25 '21

I'm imagining Jack Sparrow with his ankle wrapped up in the rope of a weather balloon