MP message typing

[stormuzo]

Hey,

not directly a bug, though my friend might argue, but here goes.

Say you are in a multiplayer game and you press TAB and start typing out a message to someone then some pop-up windows comes up, AI negotiation, tech unit production.. whatever, then suddenly you get all kinds of windows popping up and accidental decisions on AI negotions etc., as the pop-ups get the focus instead of Civ letting you finish typing out your message then returning focus to the interface!

Summed up, is there anyone else out there getting this and do you know any way to stop Civ IV pop-ups from hijacking your attempted message type-ins?
Anykind of workaround to fix this?

Thanks...

 

[BeefontheBone]

Happened to me earlier, and is very irritating - the chat box definitely ought to retain focus, particularly since between turns is when you're likely to do the most chatting.

 

[Randle]

The person I regularly play direct IP games with complains about this constantly. I've also found it to be quite annoying.

If you train yourself to stop typing the second stuff pops up, you can help avoid this problem, but you still will occasionally agree or disagree to something you didn't want to.

Build orders aren't such a big deal because you can always change them, but it's the trade window stuff that pisses me off the most.

So yeah, the chat window needs to be changed to keep focus once it is started.

Along similar lines; I wish I could mouse over my lands and cities when the build order menu is up.

Perhaps this should be moved to suggestions.

 

[stormuzo]

Yes, you might be right, it might be better place in suggestions, hopefully Firaxis checks that regularly and fixes this.

I am myself a touch-typist so I am often able to avoid most of the irritation caused by it but my friend can't touch type so he gets the brunt of it, the other night he managed to get so worked up by this during one our games that he now flat refuses to play Civ IV MP

Hope they sort this out.