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    NPC: non-player character

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Lehn, M., Groß, C., Triebel, T. (2013). Peer-to-Peer Overlays for Online Games. In: Effelsberg, W., Steinmetz, R., Strufe, T. (eds) Benchmarking Peer-to-Peer Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7847. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38673-2_8

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