GAC bug

They can’t.

The freeze bug/missing buttons bug is a known issue and not in any way specific to GAC.
The devs at some point explained a bit more about it, but in essence it isn’t a bug in itself, it is the effect you see of some underlying bug stopping the battle from progressing.

This means that the cause can be quite varied even though what you see is the same, hence why it’s not just a single bug the devs can and should get fixed.

You can go to the support forum and post there details of the battle that got hung up which might help CG identify and fix the underlying issue, but it’s not going to change the battle you have played and it’s not going to prevent future bugs from producing the same missing buttons effect.

And it just crashed on me just now. Just fleet floating in space with the time ticking by. (At least it only cost me time and 50 crystals needed to do one more fleet attack in my climb today.)

I posted an EA support ticket the last gac when this happened and they just wasted my time to tell me that they can’t help.

"Sarlac_Fett;d-266641" wrote:
This is the second time I’ve have the battle freeze in GAC fleet battle. I am winning the battle and destroy a ship. The game then freezes (timer still goes down but the battle does not progress) I am only posting here because EA support refuses to do anything. I didn’t submit a ticket because it’s a waste of time. Has anyone reported these same issues. Any luck getting help? Any other area of the game I would care less but come on CG.

I have had Profundity vs Leviathan battles in Fleet arena crash on me quite a few times in recent weeks. I think memory management is not working well for the app.