Quote from: FiniteMatter on December 24, 2013, 06:49:20 AM

Quote from: InfiniteGrim on December 24, 2013, 06:36:38 AM

Quote from: organofcorti on December 24, 2013, 06:24:30 AM

Quote from: InfiniteGrim on December 24, 2013, 06:17:43 AM

This is BAD. Plus my share per round has gone from .0028 to .0020 with the pool growing. BOO

Your share of the reward per round has dropped with an increase in the pool hashrate, but you can expect more rounds per unit time. Your expected reward per day is unaffected by pool size, only by your hashrate and the network difficulty.

in the current situation I've gone from nearly .035 a day to .01 a day! LOL

I agree that it's been frustrating to see the round times take so long lately, but I'm not sure how that may be a fault of a pool - other than the overall hashrate...which we'd all have to pay for out of our rewards (as we've seen) if it's as high as some of the other pools. I've been watching who has been finding blocks and it's consistently three other pools that keep popping up over the past few hours (Eligius found three in 8 minutes about 40 minutes ago!! But twice the hash rate as Slush). I've found though that it kind of ebbs and flows and we get into a lucky streak from time to time as well. I have occasionally wondered what the difference would be between mining here and mining at another pool. I suspect it might average out, but I have no way of knowing for sure. I also suspect that if someone else had tried to figure that out themselves, but is reading this now, then they probably didn't see an advantage with sticking with another pool.

Anyone have any intel/data/info on that?

I think it's exactly what it seems to be: exceptionally bad short-term luck. After sitting through this many bad days I do expect things to turn around, and for that reason I'm not considering other pools as an option. It eventually has to normalize, but this is certainly one hell of a crappy run.