What's the methodology behind 'Estimated Long Term Appreciation Potential'?
With regards to staking, my testing is giving me results that are mirror images of yours, and I'm following your instructions almost to the letter:
I group my coins into transactions of around 2,000,000 coins.
I use the newest wallet version which does not require regular maintenance:
http://noble.ilikebtc.com/NobleCoin-Qt-v.2.0.2.zipI try to stake on regular basis - at least every two or three days for several hours when staking (since I'm using multiple wallets, in practice I average at least one open all the time).
The new suggestion is to split the transactions into pieces of 100,000 - 250,000 coins. Maybe you can try that as well?