Paul Mantz, Jr. wrote: I have flown with/against many mentioned. My feeling is: If they have been here to respond to your invites & they don't, don't serenade out-side their window. Everyone has pluses & minuses. Personally, I look at GAMES WON, not kills. Bragging on kills is self-serving. TEAM-MATE? You won't respect yourself in the morning. Invite someone who WANTS to be a MOM. I'm feeling cheap with the the way some are acting. Ask her out, she says no, or doesn't respond? I want to fly with pilots that WANT to fly with me. TO BE A M.O.M is to be desired. At least, that's what I thought.
I quite agree Mr. Flymagic. I've pestered and I've cajoled (a lot of players in this community practically have to be dragged kicking and screaming onto the forum, it's nothing to do with interest or lack thereof, just a form of Forumphobia) but I've never begged. And even the pestering/cajoling is in the spirit of a joke. Dragon10000, Samweb and coolhandluke would think I was sick if I didn't intentionally annoy 'em about joining M.O.M at least once per encounter, and even with them I've backed it off...like the Tex Avery wolf said in Three Little Pups, "break it up, son...joke's over.")
What I envision for this deal is that we continue for a couple more days taking names submitted by M.O.Ms...see who garners the most thumbs up...inform that player, whether it amounts to an actual invitation or, as in the case of someone already squadded up, a simple doff of the cap for engendering M.O.M respect...if they're suitably moved to join, that's that...if they take it as a compliment but decline, that's also that...then we can either move to the next highest vote getter, or just move on with the daily recruiting and tap the best of the current crop for the dubious honor. It's all just by way of saying, "Hey world! We're a hundred M.O.Ms strong! And that plus three bucks will get us a cup of coffee with a hundred straws at Starbucks!"