Ok I am used to earning .45-.55 LTC per day at other pools. At your pool I am consistently at .27 daily. How much of the variance is due to your site versus the recent difficulty increase?
Thank you for your consistent and quality communication.
Absolutely and trust me we try to ensure that which coins we offer have the best outlook going forward. Each day becomes a different story based on not only coin difficulty, but also the profitability of those coins for that moment when it is found. On x11 specifically many coins have decreased in value relative to BTC's growth for the past few days and a couple have increased. The other factor becomes how many miners show up each day as they earn a share of what is found. The only factor that we have control over is what coins are put out there for our users to try and find. Everything else, price, difficulty, luck, etc is all external and we wish prices were where they were at in December, but with this rising difficulty prices haven't grown in parallel. We'll always be on the lookout for ways to improve things, especially what we think is the best fit for our community.
The number .27 you gave is based on how much is confirmed and paid to you in that day from your last matured balance payout. From what I can see, you still have a decent pending balance that is awaiting confirmation and also it seems you turn some machines on and off, so its hard for me to speculate what is going on without knowing your hashrate/machine average beyond the past 24hrs.
Regardless, our goal is to make sure we put good opportunities out there for everyone to find and we'll continue that.