Problems with pet nems (and other bugs)

I skimmed the boards and found 2 of these addressed, but I'll them here for the sake of completeness.

I'm having several problems with many different characters.

1. Rotating Names. I recently got my third minion thug. The Arsonist. On my Merc, I have my pets names so that I can set up mini-teams where one minion and one LT operate with a single command. I wanted to do that with the thugs, pairing the arsonist with the brute. This bug will prevent that from happening about half the time. I "Jo-Jo" is the first thug, "Double-Duh" is the arsonist. Every time I zone or have to summon all three, they swap names. The binds still work, but he wrong guy goes in. I don't have this issue with my Merc. Is this one known?

2. Oppressive, incorrect, auto-correcting spell checker. My Bot/TA MM is using the names of prominent stars in the constellation Orion for pet names. For some reason, every time I type the name "Betelgeuse" it gets changed to "Betelguese". The U and E change places. I accepted this as a typo the first time I saw it, but I tried about 8 times to fix it and can't. If the name were not available it would tell me that wouldn't it, not make up something close. Also, why would it not be available?

3. DING! on they all died. This seems to happen on teams only, but not all teams. When I level as a MM on a team, my pets all die. I had figured that it was part of the SSK system that when my combat level changes, the pets must be re-summoned. Except I was on a 16 playing at 39 today and the pets all survived my leveling. Then I teamed a different MM at level 18 with a level 19 leader and all pets died at when I leveled to 19, but not when I leveled to 20.

4. Seriously, come HERE. Pets are randomly forgetting to come out ot he elevators, or staying in the lobby if they do make it up. I see that this is pretty well known.

5. Pets going rogue on Zoning. I know this is listed as well, but the issue here is that sometimes pets will exit the mission, but will not be under the player's control. I see that the work around is to target that pet for a buff or heal to bring it back in.

6. Pets not zoning. The other day, on a team, my pets consistently failed to change zones at all. It was like back in issue 15. Is this one known?

For those that are known, do we have any information on workarounds or fixes?

My guess is that Betelgeuse is copyrighted or some similar reason due to a movie about ghosts where the antagonist is called Betelgeuse. CoX would rather prevent certain names from being used than getting sued by some company.

My pets ignore me. I tell them to stay and 10 secs later one of them has moved. I am only a few feet away and not going anywhere myself.

It's like being on a iffy pug where someone who has been informed that they should stay back somewhere takes it upon themselves to move in and gets killed. Then after being resurrected, so to speak, they repeat their mistakes.

Feeling like you can't get away from a bad pug when solo is so annoying.

No, actually, the movie is named "Beetlejuice" but the character's gravestone says Betelgeuse; Beetlejuice is just how it sounds and, thus, becomes an important part of the plot, sorta.

Oh, and you should be able to fix problem 5 by also having them take damage, though it's still kind of annoying.

Them all dying on level up sounds pretty scary, but at least it only happens on teams. I'd hate having to travel back to a mission 100% of the time I level up.

Well, I confirmed it with my other Thugs MM. I'm 2 for 2 on the names swapping every time I summon. I guess it's not known. Off to report it I go.

I did some testing last night as well.
I used my lvl 41 Thugs/Dark with thugs named Spike, Killa and Molotav (guess which one is the arsonist) with no swapping of names.
I then tried my new Mercs/TA (now lvl 17) with soldiers named Pvt Biggs, Pvt Wedge, and LCpl Hack for the medic. While I was sidekicked to a friends 34 brute I had a problem with the names rotating. Even watching the uniform of the medic change into the soldiers and the new medic getting one of the soldiers names. Does it happen to you when your not sidekicked? If not it may have to do with getting more pets then what you would normally have if you weren't sidekicked.

And yes my Arsonist is just as stupid as yours is it seems. He usually dies on a mission at least once. But thats not half as annoying as zombies though. Atleast the arsonist doesn't get stuck on every single little thing and let me run into a mob alone expecting backup. If I wanted that I would PuG.

Oh the soldiers also had a hard time with elevators.

I have the name swap issue on both Thug MM's (19 and 20) when solo to the point that I'd bet real money I can make it happen at will. I don't have it on my Merc (37).

When I summon them move to my base, none of the thugs or soldiers will move from the entry point. My Necro is 50 so I haven't tested that yet. I'll try the rest of them and see who gets hung up where.

And once per mission for the Arsonist? Mine goes down every other fight if I don't watch him (pain dom) With TA, I just use him as the alpha sponge. They really need to take Brawl out of his attack chain.

Well like I have mentioned before my thugs is paired with dark so most of the mob ends up standing there and taking it like a Zig queen, until the Arsonist pisses off a boss or something. So far the only group I hate fighting are the Scrapyarders because of the demolitionists. I still have bad dreams of them wiping my entire posse.

I don't know if my Necro will make it to 50 or not. I know the pet AI really isn't all that great, but man the zombies are so bad it hurts. I doubt I will delete him just because the image of flaming zombies vomitting on people makes me laugh for some odd reason. Of course though my wife thinks I'm insane because I have an AR/Trap corrupter that looks like a clown and I laugh (she says manically) everytime a mob rushes into a mine field.