Starting 23 November 2009, you may form alliances with players of your choice. To form an alliance, you must ask the person who you wish to ally with in bold red text after a meaningful post or in the alliance request thread (coming tomorrow). If they accept in bold red text, then you are in an alliance.
BENEFITS OF ALLIANCES.
If you are allied, an automatic +2 is added to any battles you fight.
If you are allied, you may dip into your allies' points (you may only use 1/4 of their points at a time, mind you).
To break an alliance, you fight your ally, but if the person who calls the fight loses, they cannot fight again for 24 hours.
Again, this feature is not coming until tomorrow. Get ready, folks!