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Originally written by Arancaytar:

Around here, it's acknowledged as something underhanded and against the rules, but insinuating someone did it doesn't get a reaction as if you'd accused them of murder or something. :P

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Well, see, the thing is that if you're an academic and you're caught plagiarising, your career is kaput, so to speak. If you're passing off others' ideas as your own, that destroys any trust the faculty had in you to produce original work and give proper credit to research sources. And suppose your plagiarised work was used in a bestselling book, or in research that won a cash prize. Lawsuit city.

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Originally written by I'll Steal Your Toast:

Ultimately it will come down to high rise agriculture in closed building where they don't need to use a lot of chemicals. Essentially you will have an integrated organic multistory farm. Basically a skyscraper greenhouse powered by a generator, solar panels, wind generators, and various energy saving technologies. People will become so packed together that farmland will be increasingly needed for living space. There is no effort at population control. Plus land will get used up or be designated as environmental holdings.

This 1) eliminates the use of huge amounts of pesticide.
2) makes the crops more locally produced because they are in an urban environment.
3) frees up more land for homes.

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Originally written by High on HEX:

I find the whole "wild frontier" aspect of Valorim overdone. It's got large cities and plenty of towns. It has roads everywhere. It has ancient ruins! I think people have been there for a century at least, and there's definitely no way everything from Delis to Blackcrag could have been settled in the few years between the Empire War and A3.

I agree that there must have been many portals into Avernum, but they probably all dumped into the same terminus. Finding more than one exit would take more work, not less, and the Empire isn't keen on the comfort of its rejects.

—Alorael, who now can't remember what, if anything, came of the various mentions of the nephilim having a separate portal into Avernum in A1. This is just his day for not remembering.

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