Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-11264457-20130813233820/@comment-10813029-20130818103814

The13thPrime wrote: Mobage Responded To My Inquiry And All Users That Show Up In The Help Request Que Are Active Users That Have Physically Joined In The Event Which Is Good. Unless the help request system has been updated since the last event, I would not believe that Mobage response. It is possible that was their intent, but it certainly is not reflected in their code. Past threads have discussed this subject and players with multiple accounts have seen help go out to their secondary accounts that they have not logged in for weeks. This is easily proven by the game mechanics if you don't have 2 accounts. The help request will always be sent to a set number of allies, however there is no guarantee that you will have that many allies active every single time you send a request. If it indeed only sent out to active players you should see a fluctuation of help to your allies (with a max but no min) and not a set number of allies every time.

The last event I had help sent to an ally who had not logged in for 6 days on the 3 day of the event. It is possible that the request to random players are all active (though I doubt it), but I'm quite sure the requests sent to allies are a mix of active and inactive allies, whatever the system needs to fill the ally quota for the help request.