System and method for allowing affiliations to utilize in-game items to assist other players

A computer-implemented method of providing assistance between users in an online game, wherein the users include a first user and a second user, the method being implemented in a computer system comprising one or more physical processors, the method comprising:

• managing inventories that are associated with the users, wherein the inventories include at least one of (a) virtual items that are available to the users in the online game, and (b) resources that are available to the users in the online game, wherein the inventories include a first inventory associated with the first user and a second inventory associated with the second user;
• obtaining associations of discrete groups of the users in the online game as affiliations, wherein the affiliations include a first affiliation, and wherein the first affiliation includes the first user and the second user;
• presenting a request on behalf of the first user to one or more other users in the first affiliation, including the second user, wherein the request is for at least one of:
• (i) one or more virtual items, and/or
• (ii) one or more resources;
• and
• providing some or all as requested to the first inventory such that at least one occurs:
• (i) one or more virtual items are moved from the second inventory of the second user to the first inventory of the first user, and/or
• (ii) one or more resources are moved from the second inventory of the second user to the first inventory of the first user.