It's a fantasy world setting, thousands of years old

>It's a fantasy world setting, thousands of years old
>Technology hasn't advanced in thousands of years

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you don't need technology if magic exists

There's really nothing inaccurate about that. You've just lived in a post-industrial world where change happens at a rapid rate.

it kind of has to be this way.

in Sci-fi in a civilisation advanced for thousands of years they would be so advanced they would be like Q or something.

in fantasy, they want all the lore but don't wan to lose the whole fantasy thing in the first place.

I suppose you could always use the excuse of a 'dark age' or perhaps magic(or whatever) reducing the need for invention.

>It's the real world, billions of years old
>Technology doesn't advance for millions of years

If there's a reason for that being the case then it's fine. Wars are what drive technological advancement, in general, more than anything else. So if there's a reason why wars change eg. dragons or magic, then advancement would slow considerably.

>sci fi setting
>there's slavery

they can master interstellar travel, with all the engineering and computer advancements that entails.

still have to use slaves in stead of robots.

maybe if they have a reason for limiting AI, like dune or something.

>It's a fantasy world full of magic
>some dweeb wastes his time creating machines that function by mundane means

Abos lived in Australia for thousands of years without inventing anything

>it's a fantasy setting
>the industrialized race has complete hegemony over the idiotic magical backwaters

>thousand of years of development happened
>the writers only have tunnel vision and can only imagine a small aspect of that technology
>they dont imagine all the lawsuits from that technology.
>there are no future, and cool safety rails.
>or mandatory safety devices that warn you of stuff on the job site in the form of some glasses, stickers or something else you stick to yourself
>evolving of logistics, no futuristic conveyor belts, new stock market methods, no AI telling them and warning them what could be done
>no evolving of security to provide at those places
>or more sophisticated thievery and the evolution of both of these forces
>plants, animals are usually all absent because they couldnt have imagined what an artist, or a designer might have done with them in the future cities (like doggo's in flying machines letting themselves out because they are pets, but the machines allow them to do so in safety)

>nobody is willing to hire consultants of these many walks of life to brainstorm together a realistic, and in dept imagining of the future.

>all we get are grey and boring tunnel visions.

Technology took a lot longer to advance before the Industrial Revolution.

>It's a fantasy world setting, thousands of years old
>technology hasn't just not advanced in thousands of years, it's actually receded from a few massive empires with advanced forms of government, to hundreds of irrelevant warrior aristocracies

I mean seriously who the fuck writes this shit.

>the magical hicks destroy a state in the midst of an industrial revolution

Name at least one kino, two cinémas, three films and four flicks where this happens.

can you name one fantasy story where this happens?

Star Wars

Return of the King

Princess Mononoke

Yes they did but not before ruining the environment around them

what films are there that are what you might call ''dungeon punk''.

a culture that uses magic on an industrial scale.

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>en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Race_(Worldwar)

Happened before

Footlose

are you serious? that's more true to life than anything else

things like the dissolution of the roman empire and the arab caliphate literally lead to this kind of thing happening in europe and the middle east

that is actually interesting.
I don't think we see this in mainstream sci-fi, how cultures develop if there based on different species.

Turtledove has some neat series

>spend 800 years building an empire and maintaining a dynasty
>finally manage to start making actual technological progress
>fucking tarrasque rolls through and murders everyone

Look at how slowly technology advanced in the real world though.