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Great Story. My son also started playing just before he turned 5. My son has a speech and learning disablility but he totally gets computer games. He still can not read but small simple words however he can match the names on the compass and get the right train stop. When he first started playing I would mention it to teams but usually they didn't believe me. He always waited for the team to attack and played his toon for the most part correctly although he doesn't tend to know when he is in too deep. So he tends to draw more aggro than he should. Best thing for him was when I made him a poison MM so that he got to learn about healing and ressurrecting people. He got the whole team concept right then and there. It's amazing what he can learn from just doing something like this game. Some people didn't believe his age until we did a SF one night and I had him on Teamspeak. He doesn't like teamspeak because one of the female players in our group said he sounded so cute. He didn't like that apparently.

I also got some interesting words from other parents. I got called by a mother because my son was talking about all the games he plays at school. She called to tell me my son was lying about what games he can play and that he plays them on the computer in his room. To which I replied excuse me but he does have a computer in his room and he does in fact play those games. She responded well we looked at the store and our computer doesn't meet the requirements, how can your son have one that does. I asked her let me guess you probably have an Xbox and Playstation but have never bought a new computer. I was right. So the moral of this story folks buy your kid a computer not a console they learn much more and the typing skills will never hurt them.

Later he had a school project of what his hobbies were we made a poster board and he wanted a screenshot to show his Bots and his MM off. We also took pictures of him at his computer with his headset on. That's when the teacher told me she thought he was watching me play not that he actually played. Also made it obvious it is his computer since it is adorned with hotwheels stickers and toys all over the place. Oh wait that could be a devs office too nevermind.

So my sons favorite AT is the MM loves his pets too. His favortie Hero is also a Fire/Fire Blaster. Something about those fire graphics I guess. Although his Ill/storm Troller is a close second thanks to of course Pets and well what kid doesn't like snow.

Course now my son is getting expensive. He plays WoW and his favorite toon is a Hunter aka PETS. He has tried Star Wars Galaxies, and Pirates of the Burning Seas (his current favorite). Plays Hellgate:London thank god its free.

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New badge bug I ran into last night. COV Corlax Blue Hybrid Gladiator badge is supposedly for defeating 100 Coralax Blue Hybrids. Our team defeated 110+ in a row just to see if it was working to no avail add that to the ones we already had defeated. Just for the hell of it we took down over 100+ Reds to see if badge information was wrong. No luck there either. Petition sent. Previously reported mission that wouldn't load bug seems to be lag/load time induced I took a team in and 1 person made it in and cleared it for me the rest of us lagged out. So just add that to the random lag/ game crash pile.

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24 Thug/Traps MM 131 Badges
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New one I just found and repeated on 3 different machines. All with different Video Cards. The Place Arcano-Bomb in Circle Lair mission given by Unlockable contact Henri Dumont in Sharkhead Island will not load at all. Click the cave door get nice COV splash screen and locked. Having never done this mission before I can't say if I8 caused it or the most recent patch or what have you but it is definitely a problem. I didn't send that to the In game support as I don't want them marking all of my mission as complete again so I just dropped the mission on my own this time. After the recent patch a lot of my slowness has gone away except for larger teams. Lag now for a full team can be unplayable for me at times if we fight a large mob. This did not occur before I8.

Main Computer relevant Specs:
Intel Petium XTreme Edition 3.36Ghz
NVidia 6800GS 256MB Ram
3GB 533MHz Ram
300GB HD with more than 216GB free

Laptop:
AMD 4000+
ATI X600 Video 128MB
1.5GB 400mhz RAM
120GB HD with 70MB free

Second computer for sons account
Pentium 2.8Ghz
NVidia 5200 128MB
2.5GB 400 Mhz Ram
160GB HD with 80GB free

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As far as what I have seen. New Random crashes severe lag of course and a lot of mission maps with holes in them. COV side 1st mission from Angelo Vendetti the Kindap Archon Winters mission. My minions get just disappearing. Turns out they were falling and ending up elsewhere on the map. THen the guards around Winters did the same thing luckily my minions fell through the same hole and I was able to find where the mob went. Then even Winters disappeared. The mish was comical at best trying to find where people kept popping out. Luckily I play with a fun group or people and we did find it Comical but annoying. Then the Willie Wheeler plant bugs in Arachnos base mission had a bomb that didn't exist. Sent petition. No response. Had freinds come into mission and they also could not find it. So I had them stay on team and reset the mission to try to spawn a different map and get new bombs, That worked and I completed the mission. 36 hours later support responds and they responded by marking every mission my character had in his mission list as completed. Including the Slag Reaper badge mission I was saving for my SG to run. So the bugs don't end at the devs. Supoort is bugged and they won't reset the badge mission for me that they cleared without being asked.

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