That's the thing, Slush's hop-resistant algorithm only really works well on short rounds. On occasion when we've had <5 minute rounds I can make a killing but there is nearly no difference in reward between a 2-hour round and a (soon-to-be) 6-hour round. Is that a small/medium miner thing, or can bigger miners corroborate? I get about 1.8 Gh/s between me and my buddy. On a PPS pool you get what you work for but here, because the score metric resets every so often, everyone is pretty much capped for any given round. At this 10.1M difficulty the highest reward on a single round I've gotten was .00576. Everything the same, a 6-hour round should absolutely pay better than a 1-hour. More work, more uptime, higher cost of running.