You should really consider a tiered system for paying for the premium level or lower the version needed for reporting. I'm a small miner, I can't pay $170 just to get reporting for a small miner. Have you considered charging per miner for long term stats keeping? I could see paying for the professional version if it had stats, but that's all I'm really interested in. $170 is incredibly steep just for reporting for 1 single miner.
Thanks for your feedback. Pricing can be difficult, as there can always be scenarios where the combination of pricing, feature levels and number of miners doesn't match all expectations. There are a number of fixed editions for Awesome Miner, where the features and number of miners are fixed. The current concept is that either more features or more miners will require a higher edition.
One reason why it make sense to let the feature level force a specific edition is that from a technical support point of view, more features results in more support questions - while the difference between 4 or 20 miners typically don't generate more support questions.
Well, tbh you could document the reporting a lot better than you're currently doing which would eliminate a lot of the questions in advance while bringing in a vast revenue stream of new purchases. The number of hobbyist miners is probably 10 fold more than the multi rig owners that would shell out $170. With a higher level of documentation on the reporting, you could reap the rewards without worrying about an onslaught of question. Not to mention you could refer them to this bct link where questions could also be answered by the community. I've never really tried awesome miner altho I've been mining for a while. The #1 reason being what I've heard from others, there's no information to make an educated decision on my business. Up to you, thanks for listening.
I support the idea of better documentation. It is old, sections are missing and documentation of new functions is not added ...
On statistics, of course it is impossible to have anything real, because everything is based on estimates and there may be large deviations from the estimate to the real. I usually test each pool / currency to modify its profit to be closer to reality.
Even so, you can do some simple statistics. You can take the value of the estimated daily hash (all rigs), take a sample per minute, or every few minutes, and at the end of the day averaging that data.
It is not perfect and there will be deviation, but at least there is a reference, and if I change options, time of profit, if I choose certain currencies, I can see as the days pass the changes in the estimated daily profit averaged. I already say in advance that it is not perfect but it is perfectly useful to know if you are going to get worse or better.
You can do more simple statistics, type: How many times you have changed the currency, so you know if it changes a lot or little. What are the most mined coins in time, gains by Protocol (skein, X16s etc ...) etc ... You can do many things more or less easy to help make decisions. Right now there is nothing to help make decisions.
Better than having nothing, it is better to have estimated values.
