I wasn't sure by what it meant ramp up. So essentially pay is held until this time frame has passed?
Whats the point of a ramp up period? It says to reduce variance but how does it accomplish that?
Payment per block is paid according to the number of shares you've sent to the pool over 5x the current difficulty.
At current pool hash rate and network difficulty, this works out to all the shares you've submitted over the past 13.5 days.
The reward you get is then (Your Shares) / (Total Shares submitted to pool over 5Nd) * (Block Reward + tx fees) - 0.9% Pool fee.
So, if you pool hop during the 5Nd period, you're submitting fewer shares to the pool compared to people who didn't at the same hash rate.
Edit: This is aimed at reducing pool variance by discouraging pool hopping.
I understand this already but my point is being missed. When looking at the shifts, the reward stated was about 0.086. When looking at the payment section, the reward was 10% this amount. I had mined for about 10 days. I hadn't mined since the start of the block but that should be irrelevant because the payout method doesn't base anything on time but rather shares submitted. Has my reward gone missing? Why is there a major difference in the stated reward and the actual payout. Am i not understanding something here? Can someone please actually just explain it instead of telling to the read links that I have already read or copy and pasting something from kanos site?