No translator, yet I'm still able to use diplomacy screen

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I didn't have the translator, I went to war with Drengi. He eventually contacts me and asks for a peace treaty. How is this possible? Does desperation for a peace treaty suddenly give me the power of a translator? Not only was I able to talk to them, but I could scroll every civ from the diplomacy screen and make deals with them as well. When I left the diplomacy screen and then tried to contact a civ, I got the 'you need the translator' pop up. How can a civ ask for a peace treaty when I don't have a translator? There should be no 'intelligible' communication if I don't have the translator. If the drengi wants peace, all I should see is a garbled message. This must be a bug.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The original copy of this post was moved to bug reports so the devs catch it--no need to repost (sorry for any confusion if you thought it turned up missing).
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yes any inability to communicate is totally illogical.

According to the story of Galciv, human scientists were already in communication with Alien races when they developed the hyper drive.

So just for fun, lets pretend humans didn't really develop hyperdrive technology and share it with alien races... lets pretend that never happened and humans cannot actually communicate with aliens without the universal translator. Ok so then in answer to your ingame problem - obviously if the Drengin have the universal translator, they can use it to communicate with you. In which case the fact that you cannot open the diplomacy menue on your own terms is illogical.

NB was typing above post before Kryo moved it!
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Please comment at the original copy of the post here.