Allies: Pointless code?

[The Pharoah]

Since adding players as allies no longer prevents attacks or raids from or against them, why don't Gree just chop the whole mechanism, and calculate the number of units you can bring to battle directly from your level? Too easy?

[Adm.]

Since adding players as allies no longer prevents attacks or raids from or against them, why don't Gree just chop the whole mechanism, and calculate the number of units you can bring to battle directly from your level? Too easy?

Because it does still allow people to "hide" in the rivals list by dropping allies. What would be useful is if the 5 ally packs that were given as rewards worked.