Quote from: autonomous42 on May 11, 2013, 09:20:54 AM

Quote from: vs3 on May 11, 2013, 09:10:08 AM

On the good side - this is going to be a pretty large block, so that gave me enough time for my score to restore to normal (in about an hour).

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.

You need to know how block mining works.

It doesn't matter how long it took to find a block, a block will always contain ~25BTC. It's all about luck. Slush's score system even things out over time.

If it's proportionate returns you are looking for, you're at the wrong pool. The PPS system will suit you more.