Another suggestion is that if you are using Z-Enemy miner as the preferred miner for any of the algorithms it supports, you may want to follow the developer's recommendations for intensity settings found here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3378390.0 Some of the miner's default settings are not the recommended values. If you change the intensity settings
for a preferred miner, you may want to consider locking that miner if you are using the Change Preferred Miners Automatically advanced configuration setting.
I haven't made any changes to intensity as I wanted to see what the default values do, but I will look into that. Thanks.
In regards to BlockMasters, you may want to read this post
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4101412.0 to see what others have been saying about their price estimates. I don't agree with everything being said in that thread, but I have found that the actual prices are closer to my expectations than some of the current estimates.
Just read that thread and that looks bad for BlockMasters. I'm not sure if i want to use a pool that inflates prices.
The author makes some compelling points. There may be technical reasons for some of the discrepancies. We will just have to see how the pool responds. Unfortunately, they are not the only pool to have had to face that type of allegation. I havent had any issues with payouts from them and the actual prices seem more closely aligned with those of similar pools than their estimates. I just wanted to let you know about those issues since you said you were going to try that pool.