General Question About The Portal Ship Building Rules | Portal Ship Requests | Forum

Greetings staff of VC,

I have posted a topic about a new portal ship, and I wanted to make a copy of my current balloon. Because I lacked the motivation for just brainless copying I started looking for an alternative to my balloon, sadly the only one I could find is the blimp design, and I dont feel that one either.

So I went over to the portal ship page on the website and it states the following: 

Air Ships

• Designs must fit within the 61x25x50 or 25x25x50 plots (Length, Width, Height)
• Designs must have helium/hydrogen balloonet and gondola or basket
• Designs must be conventional and convincing
• Designs are to be no more modern than the 1800s.
• Designs must be approved.

I would like to talk about the fourth rule: "Designs are to be no more modern than the 1800s."

In my previous topic I requested a portal ship from my place to greens place (new market) and vice versa. But after reading the fourth rule I started wondering if those rules would also apply to airships that do not dock at Exodus. I figured it could be possible, since I could also build a high tech city which probably shouldnt have a pre 1800 airship, but probably something more modern.

To wrap it all up: I was wondering if the same rules apply to (air)ships that do not dock at exodus.

Just to make clear, I am not trying to provoke the rules here, I am interested in exploring my options before I start building a new airship.

Thanks for reading and I appreciate all the time anyone has and will spend on helping me with this subject!

-Tedisvet

PS. In my city I would like a magical balloon, it could be something like in the picture below. The balloon probably will be either raindrop shaped, or be a sphere that is held down by a cloth carpet thing like in my existing baloon.