Quote from: flound1129 on September 05, 2013, 02:27:48 AM

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Quote from: TheDirtybird on September 04, 2013, 09:47:01 PM

Actually I have noticed this too.. mostly with high difficulty coins like NVC and LTC.. you can mine for 30 minutes.. then not go back and within 1 hour your mined shares are absorbed into long waits between finding blocks. So what happens is your 30 minutes of mining is gone and gives back nothing.. this happens more than it should as LTC and NVC can go a day without finding a block. There is no way to avoid this and it becomes a loss on a regular basis. Any ideas on how Flound could fix this?

Quote from: Jcw188 on September 04, 2013, 09:20:05 PM

Quote from: captainfuture on September 04, 2013, 08:59:50 PM

if we mine ltc and then switch to another coin without finding a block, will the shares count or are they gone after a while?

they "count" but the shares go away after a short while. I think this is a major problem with the pool.

Flound I thought you said minimum 10 mins on each coin eveyr time there is a switch. I swear it switches more than that.

Easy, change to Proportional or Pay Per Share. Proportional would be best as everyone gets paid proportional to the amount of shares they submit whereas Pay Per Share is more risky for the pool operator. As it is now, the LTC round time is set to one hour, yet it can take from a few hours to a few days to find a block. That means only the shares submitted at most an hour before a share is found gets paid anything. The rest of the shares get paid nothing. I think this is why many people are not seeing the profitability they are expecting.

I vote for PROPORTIONAL!!!

This^

Any issue I have had with this pool I would be willing to work on and have excepted them as not problems but the way things run. The time based PPLNS is not a good way to get paid and is the main reason for me not using the pool. I only use PPS or Prop pools with multiminer and I get almost exactly or a fraction of a percent more than my estimated.

Why don't you like time-based PPLNS? What do you see as unfair about it?

Even though we've done the work, but if a block isn't found during the time while mining a certain coin before it switches again, that work time has been wasted, and just wasted power.

Like, even though we did the work but we didn't find a LTC block (for example) in a certain time frame we don't get rewarded for our efforts?