Patent ID: 9669317
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: A63F

Claim:
1. A system configured to facilitate providing assistance between users, the system comprising: one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to: execute an instance of a virtual space, and to implement the instance of the virtual space to facilitate participation by the users in an online game and to facilitate interaction of the users with the virtual space by executing actions in the instance of the virtual space in response to receiving action requests from the users; store inventories of resources that are available to users in the virtual space, the inventories including a first inventory of resources available to a first user in the virtual space and a second inventory of resources available to a second user in the virtual space; store associations of the users in the online game within the virtual space with affiliations wherein the affiliations comprise a discrete group of three or more users, the affiliations comprising a first affiliation comprising a first discrete group of users to which the first user and the second user are associated; and receive a request for assistance from a first user of the first affiliation, effectuate presentation of information related to the request to other members of the affiliation, receive an assistance input from the second user of the first affiliation, the assistance input including one or more virtual items and/or resources included in the second inventory of resources to be provided by the second user, and effectuate provision of the assistance from the second user to the first user in response to reception of the assistance input, wherein provision of the assistance from the second user depletes the one or more virtual items and/or resources from the second inventory.