Wow. I never get these messages. I'm ... quite relieved.
I almost never message with my opponents now, though back in the day when we could get titles and pics for feats in GAC I would sometimes message someone asking them to put a particular squad in the front row of their defence (or sometimes just any weak squad) and in exchange I would let them win the round.
Occasionally someone wouldn't see the message in time. Occasionally they'd say no. But every time they did that, I always held up my end and attacked only the squad named while placing anything that they asked on defence so that they could practice counters if that was their thing, or to make the defence as easy as possible to clobber, if that was their thing.
Sometimes we would also check in right near the end of a GAC cycle to make sure we each had enough points to reach Aurodium or Kyber, whatever their goal was. There were times when I let someone have the win b/c they needed it for their goal, but I had already gotten mine; there were times when someone else did that for me. Those were the best. Made some friends that way, actually. Friends who would chat with me for a long time after, just checking in.
Crystals seem to have taken that camaraderie away from GAC, but I'm lucky enough I've never seen this kind of terrible messaging. I don't know what I would do if I did see it.
