you're right. i bet my cat would be less gassy if we lived at altitude, too

i'm not sure i would change that tho, she seems to enjoy farting on people.

If we made them extremely luxurious and everyone agreed that only the "best" people could use them for travel, I could see them solving a few problems.

As the Total War 3 mod which basically turns the Empire into a ww1-ww2 era power has taught me, if you can't solve a problem with zeplins you aren't using enough of them. Now if you'll excuse me the Karl Franz zeplin armada has some French to purge.