Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9488559-20130524000230/@comment-9890645-20130524134221

67.190.213.217 wrote: This is all very interesting. Another conversation in this forum recently had concluded that your allies weren't the ones that got called when you called for help or vice versa, and that they were just randomly chosen people from whoever was active and available. But your experience would seem to contradict that. I don't know who any of my 56 allies are and just invited whoever it suggested and didn't pay attention to their names or levels once they accepted. So next event I'll have to take a look at who is on the list when I send out a help request and compare it to my ally list. That would certainly make the ally feature make more sense.

There are two reasons I noticed it: 1. The friend I referred to has a username I immediately recognize, and I look at battle logs a lot (because I was trying to figure out what the point of allies was). 2. I have few allies at this time, and I started noticing the few I had were in EVERY battle log for battles I started.

As I said, we exploited the heck out of it during the event. People may not have noticed it because the game tells you nothing of what allies do, so no one knows to look.