Elder scrolls online 1000 years before skyrim... fast forward to skyrim no technological advancement at all.

If we take our advancement from 1000 years ago until now, it is fair to say in skyrim they should be running around with ak47's.

That's a pretty good point, actually! In all fairness though, I doubt the lore of Skyrim was made to cater to ESO so it would make sense, but I wouldn't mind seeing some more technology then. We might even see technological advancements, but the secrets die with the people who make them and such. If there was a Tamrielic equivalent of Leonardo da Vinci who has all these schematics for flight devices and machines, that'd be awesome!

yes, bring logic to a game with magic and dragons.

Every new elderscrolls game people say this. isn't it obvious that they threw things like technological advancement out the window. unless u want ak47's in ur elderscrolls games, i know i certainly don't.

After a thought, wouldn't we call that fallout? LOL

LOL yeah u could say that

Has been discussed already why there was no tech advancement, but its a fantasy game after all that has MAGIC.

Now look at what magic alone can do and tell me a reason for them to research gunpowder further than basic cannons and what not...

Again this is using OUR world logic and assuming we had magic as well, but its a fantasy world, with powerful magical entities where humans are nothing but play toys.

It's possible things like electricity and the natural elements needed to make gunpowder simply don't exist within the universe of the elderscrolls. If they did i'm sure the dwemer would have figured it out.

exactly!

Magical wizard, whoop fire ball ... wait.. before he managed to do that he was shot in the head.

but yeah, fair point

So we HAVE already fireballs flying around yet not even muskets, where is the incentive to research even muskets when they take 10 years to reload, yet a random dude shoots fireballs out of a freaking wooden stick.

There is no NEED for it, so, as I stated in another thread, it's just novelty research done by very few, meaning progress will be slow, research can be lost, it can lead to wrong paths, be abandonded and forgotten, etc since only a few will do it out of CURIOSITY but not actual need, oh and that would mean they have to figure it out it can be used as a weapon.

Lets look at the earliest most advanced musket 100 stick wizards in a line vs 100 muskets.

They shoot their muskets, 50 wizards die, what then? Utter carnage for the wizards summoning daedra shooting lightining inferno and everything else while they attempt to recharge....

Again im using OUR world logic to explain this, but again, its a different world with different laws, its fantasy, there is no deeper knowledge to why magic exists, no biological explanation on how you can shoot fire through your hands and not get burned, etc.

Tanks > magic,

imo

nuclear bomb > magic imo LOL

I suppose we'll be looking at the evolution of magic in this game too because the Mage's Guild is still taking baby steps towards becoming very popular, so it'd be nice to see grand master wizards in future games just starting out here. I for one would like to see how the use of magic and ways of thinking change throughout the game. ^^

This http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1486216-age-of-steel-pre-gun-powder-too-many-years-here/?hl=%20steel%20%20age may give you additional insight on the topic.

Well the Dwemer were pretty advanced technologically, and we all all know how that ended up for them.