Hope this helps everyone understand the reward system. I got rid of this altogether in HYP because it wasn't my cup of tea.
Thanks presstab. I updated my previous post accordingly.
The ELI5 version (presstab, don't hesitate to correct me) is that the NVCS code is not smooth enough; it kicks in late and when it kicks in, it kicks hard and this hurts. HYP code is smoother, less painful to users.
For people familiar with Monero and PoW, consider NVCS as block halving and HYP staking (we have to find a better name, press) is continous decrease.
Well its not really a NVCS problem, although I think NVCS is a flawed approach.
Ha ha I am not sure there is an ELI5 version of this, but the hard fork switched the bit-wise operations on bnProofofStakeLimit from rightshift 24 to rightshift 18. This is why the difficulty before the fork was something like 0.03 and did not trigger NVCS, and now the diff is 0.0025 - less diff, but NVCS still kicked in? Well the math changed so the diff from before is not very comparable to the current diff. It will be interesting to see this one play out.