Patent ID: 8328643

Claim:
A method for creating a crew to participate in a challenge within an online game, comprising: identifying quests to complete the challenge, wherein each quest includes a plurality of tasks and each task includes a plurality of subtasks; sending a request feed to a plurality of members of a social graph requesting the plurality of members of the social graph to join a crew for participating in completion of the tasks of the challenge, the plurality of members in the social graph having a social relation with a user initiating the online game, wherein the user is a mission leader managing the challenge; assigning a distinct subtask to each member of the crew that responds to the request feed, each crew member having a skill set to complete the assigned subtask; monitoring progression of the challenge by the crew members of the crew; when a particular crew member of the crew is inactive, providing a control that is user selectable to nudge the particular crew member to become active to contribute toward completion of the assigned subtask; providing a control that is user selectable to fire the particular crew member or to hire a new crew member for the assigned subtask, wherein the firing or the hiring is performed when the nudging of the particular crew member fails to activate the particular crew member to complete the assigned subtask, the new crew member being part of the social graph; and updating status of the challenge based on the progression made by each crew member of the crew, wherein the method is executed by a processor.