In cases like these, one would suggest to ask for clarification if you are not sure and not to start with a load of Cpt. Obvious statements.

I am not implying, I am merely stating a fact. It takes a certain time (cannot say exactly for this case, because the balance graph @eligius does not show sufficient history for me) IIRC about 2-3 weeks until your estimated reward hits a saturation.

In specific cases like this (extremely long round time), you may hit that even if you came quite late to the party.

I'm neither talking about pool hopping, nor did I say luke-jrs statement was wrong. It's just not entirely true for a very specific case: Clients joining the pool long after a round has begun and long before it ends (and staying until the end).

Of course to take any profit from this, one would have to foresee the future (how long the round will take), which most of us can't.

So even at this very moment, people could speculate and join eligius and if the current round still took - say- another 400 hours, they'd get overproportionally rewarded. If the round took less, they wouldn't. Because they do not know the future: Yes, practically pool hopping has no benefit. Theoretically - if you knew the future/round length, or had luck - there is benefit of late join.

Rico