Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership.

My guild’s members mostly reside in the northeastern U.S. and Canada. As such, the summer is a great season for us: barbecues, outdoor sports, beaches and lakes, hikes and bike rides — it’s a lot of fun! However, it’s also the season where my guild’s raiding schedule seems to hang by a thread. And this year is no different.

People aren’t online as much. Their free time shifts around completely. Some members hardly play at all. It starts to become difficult to fill raid slots. Sometimes it becomes impossible, and we have to cancel raids for a little while.

On top of everything else, we’ve been plagued by a string of technical problems this year. It started out with with one of our healers getting all laggy on us for no apparent reason. Then someone’s PC was attacked by an undetected virus. Then another one of our healers had their PC die mid-raid. Then a tank’s motherboard exploded.

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