difficulty must have rose like 500% after the pool came online.

block time is beginning to fix itself.
Thats a good thing, we will see far less problems that way.
Ok quick question, normally with a large pool I would want to jump in, however two things.
Ethminer has the 500ms getwork delay+aditional delay from pool &
since this coin pays out Uncles and due to network delay I am guessing that I have a chance of getting uncle credit solo mining.
With these factors, is solo (over a long enough timeline) actually better than pool by a larger factor than most bitcoin clones?
Anyone want to run some math with me on this?