Seems like payouts are still around 15% short, not including the bonus.. Will these be fixed soon?
You just have bad luck with Bitcoin pools, don't you? Maybe you should just make your own Bitcoin pool. You've got a pretty big user base as it is, I bet you could do it.
It's not really an issue of luck
and yes I just might do that.
All jokes and jabs aside, it would more than likely solve a lot of the problems you run in to since you would control the backend etc.
Yes, the issue is at only 250-300TH we'd have an unacceptable amount of variance.
I can think of a couple ways to up that. Firstly, the only reason I'm not mining with you any more is because I can get more ROI on pools that don't take a cut. Maybe if you made so that only the multipools take a cut, and individual pools are free, it would help. You could also try to partner with various other multipools and offer to host their individual pools that mach yours, much the same was as you are doing with BTC.
For example, iSpace Mining Pools has a lot of SHA256 pools that would be awesome if you'd merge with.
http://bet.ispace.co.uk/Not saying it would be easy, just that it could be done.