Quote from: billionaire on September 30, 2013, 07:04:40 AM

I wish whatever algorithm is used to decide when to change coins worked better. I understand it not switching to ALF just because it is the most profitable for only a minute or two and then drops far down the list,but often I see that the pool will be mining a coin WAY down the profitability list for a long stretch of time, and not switching to a better coin that is known to have long enough retargets to warrant the move (Such as CAP, CGB, DMD, ect.)

For example it has been mining MEC for 45 minutes straight, even though MEC has spent almost that entire span of time below LTC. Right now there are six coins the pool carries that would be better, with CGB in particular being almost twice as good as MEC. It's not like the profitability of these other coins just recently went up either. Earlier today it was stuck mining MEC at 450% when Diamond fluctuated between 1,000 and 700% for at almost an hour.

I have noticed this happening often in the last week or so, but just now decided to mention it. Didn't want to come off sounding like a dick, but the pool is leaving a bunch of profitability on the table so I figured I would chime in.

EDIT:

It switched about 5 minutes after I posted. For whatever reason it went to WDC at 500% instead of CGB which is still over 700%. CGB has been at this rate for about an hour and is the most profitable coin the pool offers, but it still hasn't switched to it.

As Sparhawk76 has pointed out, CGB has been disabled for now.

Regarding some other coins, I'm guessing the reason why we are not switching to some of the more profitable ones we have enabled in the pool is due to lack of buying support on the exchanges. Just because a coin has 1000% profitability does not mean we should switch to it straight away, other calculations have to be taken in to account as well.