Quote from: MoreBloodWine on November 08, 2013, 11:24:44 PM

Edit: With difficulty oing up and people in BitMinter with 200+ GHs, I'm not even sure if this pool will be a good fit for me with pay being based on participation and I'm t best doing 6.5Ghs

The pool hashrate affects your variance. Your average earnings are not affected.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10731/mining-pool-hashrate-effect-on-a-miners-income

Quote from: opentoe on November 08, 2013, 11:03:28 PM

Everyone tells me "aw, you pay to much to mine at the Guild", but then finding out about the perks and you are actually paying fees equaling to almost that of the Guild it almost doesn't make much sense to switch pools for a lesser fee, right?

Welcome to Bitminter! You decide if you want the use the perks. That's entirely up to you.

Bitminter used to be based on only donations and most miners didn't donate at all. I was basically paying to run the pool. Now you can choose anything between 1% and 3%. And if you pay more than the minimum then you get some perks as a thank you for supporting the pool.

Quote from: opentoe on November 08, 2013, 11:03:28 PM

Since I'm dealing with so little amounts here, it is nice to have a manual payout process. Maybe Bitminter has it and I'm unaware of it?

Sorry, manual payouts are still on the TODO list.

Quote from: opentoe on November 08, 2013, 11:03:28 PM

Anyway, I switched over to Bitminter around 5pm EST today and I'll see what kind of rewards I have tomorrow around this time. That should at least give me an estimate of a 24 hour earning period, right?

There's a delay of 10 shifts from the time you do some work until that work is fully paid. Currently that's taking about 10 hours. So after 24 hours a lot of the work is still not fully paid. There is also variance to consider - some days are better than others. Comparing the luck of two pools isn't really all that useful, because today's luck has zero influence on tomorrow's luck. Since BTC Guild added the same PPLNS we have, just with a different shift size, the reward system should be pretty familiar to you. There's more info here though, if you're interested: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27062.msg2769824#msg2769824