For FPPS it will pay the block reward AND the transaction fee theoretically. How each pool calculates the “theoretical” transaction fee will differ. At NovaBlock, we take the average over the past 24 hour period to ensure it is fair.
I stand corrected, there is indeed a difference,
but given the fact that transactions fees are the way too tiny in respect to the block reward, getting the transactions fees in PPS or PPLNS makes a little to no difference, especially when mining with large pools that actually find blocks, if however, you mine with a small pool that offers PPS then yes maybe you want to make sure it's FPPS and not PPS+.
Thanks for the clarification.
Just a minor comment to this. After the latest 1/2ing it does make more of a difference. Especially after last week when fees were very high.
It's going be happening more and more with fee spikes where yes PPS and it's variations are going to work out much better then small pools that are doing PPLNS and all the other methods.
Would be an interesting math problem [that is way above my ability] to see how someplace like VIA with it's high fees would compare to some PPLNS pool that only finds a block or 2 a month / week if they miss the big fee blocks. Not that they miss blocks or are below a normal on the curve but, if instead of getting 2.1
BTC or 1.8
BTC in fees they only get .9
BTC or 1.3
BTC at what point does the risk become so high that PPS just works better.
Stay safe.
-Dave