Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9488559-20130524000230/@comment-67.190.213.217-20130524073042

Godofcyanide wrote:

@Everywhere - Allies serve a purpose. Lower level guys want to be allied with a few higher level guys because, when they seek help, allies are auto-added to the help list. I have 7 allies right now and they are on every man I send out. That's how I helped a friend finish ~4500; when I found a L6 and shipped it out, I shot him a text to let him know points were available. Those were pretty much the only L6's he was seeing. Higher level guys want lower level allies so they have more sniping opportunities in that mid-period when you can't 1-cube the bosses you see but the L6's aren't available. I made many snipe kills from my buddy sending out calls for help I was only too happy to accept. (Note: I want more allies! Especially lower level guys! :) Same user name in game.) 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.