ok then some more questions about legal and financial systems, did peoples wealth massivly change? Such as suddenly gaining a few million shares of some some stock or becoming a CEO or whatnot? Or are all the CEO's former nobles and the wealth imbalance would still be at medival levels rather than current levels. How do people deal with the changed ownership? How does the lagal system deal with it. How much did laws and punishments change and how much are those changes respected?
Also a question about the old world if the gods where essentially just extremly powerfull mortals why where they venerted as they where? did they set it up, or did the priests do that to gain political power or.... lots of possibilities there. Also the venerations of gods has changed by cultures how did the people feel about gods? did he followers of the chaos gods have a different opinion? what is stopping a powerfull mage from just declaring himself a god?
What about old people? it used to be that grandparents shared the house with the sucsessive generations, but with modern financial tools that is not nessearry, and historically as soon as it was feasible to live seperate from the kids people moved out to their own homes. Did the change take care of that or are the large clan households breaking apart during the story?
What about schooling, farmers used to strongly oppose sending their kids to school because the where needed to help on the farm. In the end I think you will have to give people a predisposition to use the new knowledge and moral code that is implanted in their heads rather than the old system, though that shouldn't stop some stubborn people to cling to the old ways they should be the exception otherwise the system will break down quickly.
Did Deon account for magic when making the new world or is magic changing the way the world works as new inventions make their way around. Suppose forinstane that I enchant a tube that converts any water that flows through it to steam, presto a steam engine for which I don't need to shovel coal once I add a few more tech bits (which is why I never understood the tech and magic don't mix rules, tech can take almost any effect and make it usefull, never mind a stone enchanted to have lightining playing over it's surface forever, infinite bateries are nice.). Our world would be quite different if even just a few simple enchantments, and if more complex enchantments are allowed I can just see a illusionist/programer make up a simple to visualize computer protocol for communicating with a 'holoprojector' and then enchant a dongle or something to cast illusions based on that protocol. instant holodeck, or at least a holoprojector.
How are villages handeling the breakup of their comunity or their transplantation into the big city? How do people deal with the new neighbors? How did online communities get their content? Did people just remember that they used to write blogs and continue it? Did anyone have a blog, forum, website, whatever filled with oppinions they disagree with just after the change? Did lifelong friends suddenly know each others phone numbers and email adresses? And here omes another kicker for the legal system how do you deal with billing? Did the first month count in full? did it count in part? what about those people that had unpaid internet or other utility bills that they did not have pre-change do? (Though that is kinda mean of Dean creating unpaid bills... but debt colletion agencies also need work otherwise a lot of those working for them wouldn't be able to feed their family. There are quite a few moral quanderies like this when going from a fuedal fiscal system to a modern one without any transition.)
What about curencies, do people trust the new money or was there a major spike of inflation just after the world changed?
What about some edge cases, such as a guy who was getting his arm amputated at a healer shack during the change? Is he suddenly in a modern hospital under painkillers?
What about cows and other livestock did they mutate into givving current yields or are their yields still like they where in the middle ages? There has been a meassurable difference.
Another question about biology, how are elves different from humans? Their ears are different but is anything else different? Do their brains function the same way? Do the doctors remember elven physiology or human? what about Orc and Dwarves and the other races, how different is their biology and how has it affected soceity? Humans are tropical pack hunters specializing in very large prey and that has had a noticable effect on our soceity. Just think how different the world would be if we had a mating season like most non tropical animals have.
What about privateers (pirates that have been granted the right by a king to prey on the ships of enemy nations.) did they suddenly become part of the navy of said country?
The new military technologies would also change the balance of power, since some geographical features would become less or more of a hinderance. What about castles where some of the converted into tourist destinations complete with tour guides?
What about other continents, how have they been affected? How do the colonies react to the fact that the homeland can reach them so much faster with modern ships? And now that their entire financial basis for their existence has changed what are they doing? What modern financial systems have been substituted?
Are programers atually familiar with the code they where supposed to have written? If not then there should be a significant upsurge in proper documentation practices, as well as a significant drop in the output of the industry for a while.
In general did the godslayer try to make the world better than it was or did he try to have it just like home?
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
Also a question about the old world if the gods where essentially just extremly powerfull mortals why where they venerted as they where? did they set it up, or did the priests do that to gain political power or.... lots of possibilities there. Also the venerations of gods has changed by cultures how did the people feel about gods? did he followers of the chaos gods have a different opinion? what is stopping a powerfull mage from just declaring himself a god?
What about old people? it used to be that grandparents shared the house with the sucsessive generations, but with modern financial tools that is not nessearry, and historically as soon as it was feasible to live seperate from the kids people moved out to their own homes. Did the change take care of that or are the large clan households breaking apart during the story?
What about schooling, farmers used to strongly oppose sending their kids to school because the where needed to help on the farm. In the end I think you will have to give people a predisposition to use the new knowledge and moral code that is implanted in their heads rather than the old system, though that shouldn't stop some stubborn people to cling to the old ways they should be the exception otherwise the system will break down quickly.
Did Deon account for magic when making the new world or is magic changing the way the world works as new inventions make their way around. Suppose forinstane that I enchant a tube that converts any water that flows through it to steam, presto a steam engine for which I don't need to shovel coal once I add a few more tech bits (which is why I never understood the tech and magic don't mix rules, tech can take almost any effect and make it usefull, never mind a stone enchanted to have lightining playing over it's surface forever, infinite bateries are nice.). Our world would be quite different if even just a few simple enchantments, and if more complex enchantments are allowed I can just see a illusionist/programer make up a simple to visualize computer protocol for communicating with a 'holoprojector' and then enchant a dongle or something to cast illusions based on that protocol. instant holodeck, or at least a holoprojector.
How are villages handeling the breakup of their comunity or their transplantation into the big city? How do people deal with the new neighbors? How did online communities get their content? Did people just remember that they used to write blogs and continue it? Did anyone have a blog, forum, website, whatever filled with oppinions they disagree with just after the change? Did lifelong friends suddenly know each others phone numbers and email adresses? And here omes another kicker for the legal system how do you deal with billing? Did the first month count in full? did it count in part? what about those people that had unpaid internet or other utility bills that they did not have pre-change do? (Though that is kinda mean of Dean creating unpaid bills... but debt colletion agencies also need work otherwise a lot of those working for them wouldn't be able to feed their family. There are quite a few moral quanderies like this when going from a fuedal fiscal system to a modern one without any transition.)
What about curencies, do people trust the new money or was there a major spike of inflation just after the world changed?
What about some edge cases, such as a guy who was getting his arm amputated at a healer shack during the change? Is he suddenly in a modern hospital under painkillers?
What about cows and other livestock did they mutate into givving current yields or are their yields still like they where in the middle ages? There has been a meassurable difference.
Another question about biology, how are elves different from humans? Their ears are different but is anything else different? Do their brains function the same way? Do the doctors remember elven physiology or human? what about Orc and Dwarves and the other races, how different is their biology and how has it affected soceity? Humans are tropical pack hunters specializing in very large prey and that has had a noticable effect on our soceity. Just think how different the world would be if we had a mating season like most non tropical animals have.
What about privateers (pirates that have been granted the right by a king to prey on the ships of enemy nations.) did they suddenly become part of the navy of said country?
The new military technologies would also change the balance of power, since some geographical features would become less or more of a hinderance. What about castles where some of the converted into tourist destinations complete with tour guides?
What about other continents, how have they been affected? How do the colonies react to the fact that the homeland can reach them so much faster with modern ships? And now that their entire financial basis for their existence has changed what are they doing? What modern financial systems have been substituted?
Are programers atually familiar with the code they where supposed to have written? If not then there should be a significant upsurge in proper documentation practices, as well as a significant drop in the output of the industry for a while.
In general did the godslayer try to make the world better than it was or did he try to have it just like home?
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."