I don't remember removing any NPCs, and if your art is available, we probably use it wherever appropriate.
Anyhow, how doing being at your university results in NOT having an internet connection? Universities normally have the best connections and most ample bandwith of any organization.
But only in the summer. During Fall and Winter semesters when all the students are there, the network slows to a crawl because all the guys in the doors are downloading their anime porn and Star Wars episode III and such.
Hentai, Aaron. Hentai. We had this discussion the other day.
Anyways, MY University's network was always fine. Then again, MY University had a DC Hub that I created for the dorms that reduced external traffic by about 75% (not exaggerating, that's what the bandwith spikes were when the hub would go down) by keeping it all within the network. Also, being at one of the top10 CSE schools in the country and being on INET2 probably didn't hurt any.
The moral of the story - rat out your fellow students to the big-wigs running the motion picture and recording industries of your respective country, in order to hoard the bandwith all for yourself.