Stellaris - auto support war by empire i have no agreements with

[bananafish2828]

Description
auto support war by empire i have no agreements with

Game Version
Butler 2.8.1 [dfce]

What version do you use?
Steam

What expansions do you have installed?
Synthetic Dawn, Utopia, Leviathans Story Pack, Apocalypse, Megacorp, Distant Stars, Ancient Relics, Lithoids, Federations

Do you have mods enabled?
No

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
i get a popup announcing that my empire supported an offensive war started by another empire and now i'm at war.

Steps to reproduce the issue.
no idea - it just happened.

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[Alfray Stryke]

Hi, thanks for the report. Just to confirm, you were not in a federation with the other empire?

 

[bananafish2828]

I was not in a federation.

 

[Mímisbrunnr]

Hi, thanks for the report. Just to confirm, you were not in a federation with the other empire?

To provide more information, this has been a problem from at least 2.7.2 (and probably earlier, like 2.7 itself) and should manifest in ALL vanilla saves - so it doesn't matter what save someone provides to you, insofar that it will always manifest if a joint war invitation is made at any point.

This happens whenever an empire invites to join a war and the player does not respond to their prompt, allowing it to "auto-decline" - at least, that's according to the game's tooltip.

Except, be it intended or a glitch [probably a glitch], it hasn't worked that way (at all) for months now.

For join war requests aren't auto-declined anymore for failing to respond to them.

They're auto-accepted instead.

So to fix this, you presumably just need to take a look at the code for the auto-decline procedure/function. Presumably someone accidentally reversed a define or a programming logic if true or if not check.

If you can make it TRULY auto-decline when you ignore it instead of auto-accepting, you'd fix a bug that's been in the base-game + DLCs [vanilla, NO MODS at all] for months now. And that would be great.