You must really hate the worlds in Final Fantasy. . .
I like complicated, so I don't mind helping with the tech thing, as long as whatever we are working on together has a direct effect on what is going on in the RP between our characters. Alexi and Mois both use cars with wheels, so whatever we need to work out for them to have wheeled cars and not hover cars, I'm all for it. . .How the farmers and other agricultural professions work with their tech, not very interested at the moment, we don't have any farms for hundreds of miles, and none of our guys work with them directly, so if you wanna come up with automated gizmos or the like for them and slap them into your timeline, have at it.
As for the hurt tech. . .I swear I brought this up before. . .Way back when, I said I wanted the war to have trashed things a bit and made a lot of our tech fall behind while others advanced further. . .I remember that. . .But then again, I forget what I had for breakfast yesterday, so maybe I thought it but forgot to write it those months ago. . . I don't see the magical side of reality going down easy, and with the power I see many of the magical community having, I don't see any way of it being anything less than mini apocalyptic. Wow, we really were on opposite sides of this particular idea. . . I could of sworn I brought this up before though! *Ish frustrated that I don't have the patience to go look this up*
Oh, and about that Final Fantasy comment. . . All I can say is Swords and Airships. FF, main weapon, midevil, main mass transportation, steampunk :P I can think of plenty of Anime where the tech was rather sideways, but still worked just fine. Like Escaflowne. Gallant Swordsmen? Check! Giant Mech? Check! Let's go! A perfect marriage of tech and magic there :P Like the fate alteration device. . . .
But, anyways, I thinks stuff like that may be a large part of why I don't get your rigidness on tech. If it works in Anime, why cant it work in a fictional earth like world of our own!? :P *Teases* I has the feeling you may explode if we tried that tough :P
"Due to controlling the slaves, and the mere existence of magic as something to study, mind control tech, imprisonment tech, and magical technology are all more advanced than they were in our world. But otherwise, things are roughly the same, technologically."
I think the existence of whole 'nother side of reality would create huge changes not only in history, but in tech as well. Before the war, I can see many of the races being a part of human society, and because of their long lived nature, using what they've learned and their own personal talents to create things that humans may never have thought of because of our short lives. (I may be rambling at this point, so please forgive my rambles, but I think I may be on to something in my own line of thinking) Ever read "My Teacher is an Alien"? There are four books in that series, and one of which is called "My Teacher Glows in the Dark" and in it, it proposes that an alien came down and helped invent the TV, which slowed human's advancement towards space travel because a lot of the focus of human tech went to this new thing, and attempts to leave the atmosphere was put on the back burner. I think this is one of the things rattling around in the back of my mind when I talks about the rather staggered and slightly sideways development of tech. certain areas of development are stunted by others, slowed, and in some cases, abandoned. Like the Tesla Coil. When light bulbs were made, Tesla Coils, made around the same time, were given up on for the most part. . . .
Oh, and, question, if you really want this all back before the computer, what control measures do you see humans using for magicals to begin with? I don't see anything short of powerful shock collars on werewolves, and we need microchips for that. . . .In short, I don't think, with tech being messed up by magicals, that starting at the level of tech you propose would allow for the enslavement to ever even happened. Humans would need to be more advanced to ever have come out on top in a war with naturally magical creatures who are superior to humans in oh so many ways. . .
That works. See, I'm not always so picky :P 60 years gives more than enough time for the magicals to do some major damage :P Oh, and before it gets brought up, I really don't wanna talk about HOW the war ended just yet. I really REALLY wanna get more into the RP before discussing that particular bit of history. . . .