One of the devs made a post saying this is why you solo mine, and linked to a block on the explorer. Now if I'm understanding this correctly, the 'Value out' figure is what the blockfinder receives? So while normally you would expect to receive currently around 4.5VRM for finding a block, you could quite possibly receive 50, 100, even 1000 VRM for discovering a block?
That hasn't been my finding. I've gotten 4 blocks over the last few days across 3 computers and all are 100% in line with the stated block reward on the vault.
Re: questions about the pool, until difficulty spikes I am making significantly more solo mining than I was in the pool ATM. I don't know if it was something to do with the pool itself but I am roughly 12X over what I would be earning in the pool (I tested running all 3 machines to the same pool account simultaneously). That's 5 or 6 days running stats for me.
I could be getting lucky but something just seems amiss for the time being. I plan on going back to it at some point but for now, I even scored a block on an old i5, 4 core processor. Just my findings. Everyone will be different.