[quote=Commodore Robot]
Here's where most of my confusion is coming from. The industrial revolution didn't happen til the new world wasn't new anymore. Plus if we've got steamships(which we should unless airships use sail and muscle power) and airships and what have you I'd imagine some other things are more advanced as well. All of that got me convinced we're going the imperialism route not the colonialism route: at least aesthetically
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Honestly I blame the disproportionate advance of the airships for the odd mess of tech. If we have supposedly managed to get these airships made of metal we would have metal boats, but we don't. Steampunk means we get new steam tech and such, airships etc. Rifles don't run of steam. When you're using rifles which are using mechanisms from the late 1800's, its not aesthetic

Honestly, we should set a proper tech level. I was still thinking we were 1700's like the last time (We had the industrial revolution underway then, I cant remember how we justified it but all other tech was mostly 1700's) with airships, not using Breech loading rifles etc.