Automatic declaration of war when civilization name is clicked?!

[wrongusername]

So I was about to win the game from the UN vote (I just needed more population and was warring with another civilization) when, switching from another application through alt-tab, I discovered that I had declared war against a friend of mine. Perhaps I had accidentally clicked the civilization name; I dunno.

Confused as I was, I clicked on another friendly civilization to trade with them and war was declared against THAT civilization too? Just 1 click on the civilization name; no screen asking what I wanted to do with that guy, and no confirmation asking whether or not I really wanted to declare war.

I immediately ended the turn, alt-tabbed to another application and back again, and everything seemed to be working fine again. Fortunately, the two civs I had accidentally declared war against were weak civs located far away from me, but the wars hurt my relationships with other friendly civs.

Dunno what caused this, but it sure is devastating to a game.

 

[dark_sheep]

alt+click on name in scoreboard = instant declare war, no warning.

Try reloading from an autosave.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Too bad you can't reload in HoF or BOTM. This bug could literally cost someone a competitive game.

This is a serious, previously reported issue that AFAIK has not been addressed :/. Sometimes it "thinks" you're pressing alt even when you are not. In addition to using alt-tab, I've triggered this by alt-clicking stacks and using shift/control in rapid fashion, and then declaring on an AI by accident despite not pressing any keys at when clicking on them.

When I reported it the first time the response was a lot of nonsense and someone suggesting you use shift-d to bring up the trade screens that way (which bypasses the chance of this), which was actually helpful though an actual bug fix would be nice.

Speaking of which, control, alt, and shift-click screw each other up too, and do not work consistently. Basically if you try to do anything to save you micro effort, you risk the game screwing you over .

I've triggered this bug on 3 different machines of variable quality (each with different keyboards, also). IT IS A LEGIT BUG, but apparently tied to shortcuts a lot of people don't use.