We need to look at the mining realistically here for a second.

Have we identified which multipool switches over to CAT when difficulty is lower than 10?  They are catching blocks, many per minute, and the rest of the pools just grind out the blocks that are difficulty 20+ to around 70 something then back down to 20.  Given the retarget, that ideally leaves about 10-15 blocks available to be mined by any regular pool (P2Pool, coinium, uk pool, whatever).  I can attest to this because half the time when I jump on coinium; the pool hashrate doubles that's how low it is.

If somebody can identify the specific pool that whales CAT, I will continue to mine.  I want to support this coin but it's on a 24 hour cycle.  Us 10-15 blocks, them about 100 in the mean time.  And we are mining about 23.5 hours, they mine for 0.5 at most.  It seems like to only LOGICAL way to get a consistent payout is to join this particular multipool and then mine specifically under the port dedicated to CAT, so that normal network hashrate occurs for the high difficulty blocks 10-15 at around 80-100MH/s avg network hash rate.

Again it is pointless trying to mine while the well is bottoming out.  From difficulty 10 down to near-zero this large whale pool catches every block sometimes no less than 5 seconds apart.  It's near impossible to catch any blocks under difficulty 10, I've been lucky once and caught a 7 recently on coinium.

When we were on 2 different forks and I was mining both I had the opportunity to watch how a zero-difficulty well pays out to a normal pool (coinium on the WRONG FORK which is the whole insurance bullshit which I'm out 502 CAT from) as compared to the actual fork/dev fork which would get whaled by multipool.

On wrong fork, normal miners could catch near every block on the way down and back up out of the well.  On dev fork or whatever it's near impossible, whale pool hits all blocks before able to even be solved or served by other pools.

What is solution here?