Ok krille, here is some new stuff for you...
When staking, its about tripple rotation of what you have (your coins participate in 3 rotations of staking) and then everything just sort of dies... I have about 2 percent, and i am staking about the same for 2 days, then it dies.. like 3-4 days with 2-3 blocks... if i send to my other pc, full ammount, the staking again goes wild, again going for about 2-4 percent of staking for about a day and a half, and then it again dies.. I tried it for 2 weeks to see.. It is that way.
and i guess that explains the top 3 doing constant seding to one another... just check the transactions logs...
Thanks for pointing that out, I noticed it too. But from my experience with other coins (shadowcash, blackcoin, vericoin, clams, jumbucks, creditbit to name a few) it is roughly the same. When making a new transaction (even if to the same address back to yourself) the smaller inputs combine into a bigger one, after that more stakes arrive for some time and then you have to repeat.
With nevacoin I am experimenting staking on several nodes. The biggest difference is if the amount of coins you hold are on the threshold to beat the stake difficulty. If you are well over that threshold the stakes are constant per day.
My (long term) test:
node with approx. 3000 NEVA benefits considerably from re-sending funds to self
node with approx. 35000 NEVA does not differ that much even if sending coins back and forth, stakes come in at pretty much constant intervals.
(of course other factors also contribute...like connection count, bandwidth...etc).
My hopes are, that after the fork the staking will stabilize, making such diagnostic more accurate. The stalls in the chain at the moment are making everything very out of whack... The pos difficulty jumps up and down too much...