its about time some1 in the know went and updated the OP...
past couple of days i havent had much paid out from Mininghere pool, so ive decided to have a go at some of the other pools
the information about which pool to join, based on the what the calculator says and the average payout of the pools miners,
is hardly telling me anything, if anything just confusing me more :/
im trying the Devs V2 pool atm, but keep getting "no valid shares to submit to pool" at each block
(oh now i see one of the instances has found a share, wow - so it appears to be working, and another instance found 2 shares from same block, so dont be put off when you see 'No valid shares to submit to pool' for a while!)
all i did was move my generated plots on each drive into the pocminer_pools\plots folder on each drive,
as you need 1 instance of pocminer_pool miner for each plots folder you have..
(^ for those not so PC savvy)
Luck is still a big factor! Usually that smooths out over the days to reach the mathematical average.
E.g., if one day is found nothing, then maybe next days there are found 6, so the average of these two days is (0+6)/2 = 3
The average payout is even more tricky:
E.g., if miner A has a lots of hard disk space, and miner B has very little, then it is likely that A will find (more) blocks than B. However, LUCK is even there and the smaller miner might find the next block with little space while the miner A with big space found nothing.
In my opinion you can hardly influence that with "payout" formulas.
Pool jumping das not change the luck, but can influence if you see every hour a few BURSTs or every second day some 1000s of BURSts.
I would only change a pool if they are down. Dev pool I have not seen down, so stay with them as long as you can.
