I just finished crafting the Zeppelin in Traincraft, I must that while it does have potential and is sort of fun to play around with, but I'm disappointed in the overall quality of the thing. It doesn't really look that good, especially not with all the smoke rising from the wooden canopy, it's clunky to fly and land, sometimes kills you when you disembark, and gives you nothing that the electric jet pack doesn't already give you, except the 3x3 storage space, I guess. It also strikes me as being a bit unbalanced (the coal seems to take an eternity to burn up, which I just find strange), and you're just really vulnerable while you're up there as anything can hit you (in my first flight, I was shot out of the sky by a wisp and had to retrieve my zeppelin from the bottom of the sea).
So I don't know how work on FTB is organized, but it would be really welcome if you at some point did a workover of the Air ship/Zeppelin concept -- things like giving it an enclosed canopy and perhaps making it more user-friendly, modular (with modules such as weapons, storage space, upgrades, etc.) and perhaps even, if possaible, giving it a Battlefield 1942-style passenger slot system. In short, make it more user-friendly, and give it uses the jet pack doesn't have.
It is fun to have a Zeppelin to cruise around with and build an air ship port and whatnot, and the concept has a lot of potential, especially if you tied it in with other mods such as Thaumcraft, but as it is now, I'm tempted to say it shouldn't even be in the mod. So if someone did an "Air ship v2" at some point, I'd be really, really happy .
So I don't know how work on FTB is organized, but it would be really welcome if you at some point did a workover of the Air ship/Zeppelin concept -- things like giving it an enclosed canopy and perhaps making it more user-friendly, modular (with modules such as weapons, storage space, upgrades, etc.) and perhaps even, if possaible, giving it a Battlefield 1942-style passenger slot system. In short, make it more user-friendly, and give it uses the jet pack doesn't have.
It is fun to have a Zeppelin to cruise around with and build an air ship port and whatnot, and the concept has a lot of potential, especially if you tied it in with other mods such as Thaumcraft, but as it is now, I'm tempted to say it shouldn't even be in the mod. So if someone did an "Air ship v2" at some point, I'd be really, really happy .