[Errrrrrrr]

Something like this was not in the game files? How could they not have know? In Wow they always found everything within the first day of a new patch on the ptr.

But this is what I love about stories of Eve, massive wars across the stars

[WorldMaker]

These NPCs have been in the game forever and there are sections of space specifically to PvE farm/engage them.

Some of the articles point out this added to the initial confusion in the early waves of the attack because it was already an existing strategy for a player to get a (small) fleet of these NPCs following them to a station (either for the station to help pick the fleet apart for easier farming, or to annoy the station of a neighbor). There was an early question apparently if some players had found a way to get larger than usual fleets of the NPCs to follow them in that previous manner.

[always4getpass]

You can easily find the new 3D models, but the updated AI code?

I think that is unlikely

[thedufer]

Especially since said code certainly runs server-side.

[Errrrrrrr]

That's certainly a good point.