User blog comment:Crazy teitoku/Partnerships - an out-of-the-box approach to strategically playing the game/@comment-26486243-20151220112906/@comment-26486243-20151220153243

If it turns out well, it's great.

Otherwise, for some people like Admiral Akbar...

http://i.imgur.com/LaJ9Kmo.gif

RL friends will probably be best for most. Not because RL friends are intrinsically more trustworthy, (they're probably less so), but because if anyone pulls an Admiral Akbar, you can walk over and smack them upside the head.

Somewhat harder to do that when the person is anonymous.