Patent ID: 8292713

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: enabling a first player to perform one or more first in-game actions on one or more in-game objects in a game instance of a computer-implemented game of a second player at a first time while the first player is active in the game instance at the first time and the second player is inactive in the game instance at the first time, the one or more in-game objects comprising virtual crops of a virtual farm associated with the second player; determining, using at least one processor of a machine, one or more second in-game actions to apply to one or more of the in-game objects in the game instance based on the one or more first in-game actions by the first player at a second time succeeding the first time, and a game state of the game instance at the second time, the one or more second in-game actions being consistent with the game state of the game instance at the second time; generating to the second player a request to accept help from the first player; playing back the one or more second in-game actions in response to receiving from the second player a confirmation to accept help from the first player; and dismissing the one or more second in-game actions in response to receiving from the second player a dismissal to accept help from the first player.