[Bug] Remapping Keys doesn't work

So, it seems that when you attempt to remap the keys (because i was used to using F5 and Ctrl F5 to buy / sell metal and F6 / Ctrl F6 from the original settings, and wanted to put them back), it doesn't seem to accept the new mapping correctly.

Here's the steps I went through in the game (not all are probably necessary, but just in case):
1. Start a game on a random medium map with 3 normal random opponents.
2. Open the key mappings screen
3. Click on "Open network status window", then click 'clear', then 'add', and press the F12 key to remap that one to F12.
4. Click on "Buy Metal", then 'clear', then 'add'. Press the control and F5 keys at the same time. The screen will now show the key mapped to "Ctrl+Ctrl". Screen shot attached.

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It seems that this bug isn't restricted to the above conditions. It also happened when attempting to map the keys for building frigates. In the same game as above:

1. Map "Build Frigate - 0" to "Shift+Alt+1"
2. Map "Build Frigate - 1" to "Shift+Alt+2"
3. Map "Build Frigate - 2" to "Shift+Alt+3", which doesn't work... it shows the mapping as "Alt+Shift+Alt" instead. See screenshot.

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Man, turns out to be an interesting game here.... Since this seems to be a somewhat related issue, I'll keep it in the same thread.

So, after the attempted map above, I went ahead and tried to use the mapping for building a cobalt light frigate at my homeworld.

1. Select the homeworld.
2. Click on the build frigates button.
3. Press "Shift-Alt-2" to attempt to build a cobalt light frigate (frigate-1). Do this until you are out of resources.
4. Right-click on the cobalt light frigate button to cancel 1 frigate.
5. Press "Shift-Alt-2" to attempt to build 1 more cobalt light frigate (frigate-1). 5 more are enqueued (even though you should only have the resources to build 1 more). If you cancel them all, you get the resources that you shouldn't have had in the first place.

I'll attach a screenshot if needed, but this one isn't really visual.

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Good find. I'd suspect the building of multiple ships has something to do with using shift, considering it's also used for buying/selling larger portions of resources. I haven't ever tried key remapping, so can you change it something not using the shift key or is that the only one available?

If so, I wouldn't mind hearing what the results are then.

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