Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9488559-20130524000230/@comment-67.190.213.217-20130525231039

Godofcyanide wrote:

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. According to the recent blog announcement, I'm thinking you were part of a pilot program to use the allies in this way. Looks like they tried it out on some subset of users in the last event. Maybe it's that way for everyone now.