Also with regards to shifts. Does it matter what time length the miners spend on the pool? I.e. if they switch between 30 minutes or 1.5 hours?
Edit: See here for a detailed explanation of the payout process: https://kano.is/index.php?k=payout
Edit 2: Due to the ramp up/down behavior of PPLNS, you'll hit full payouts within approximately 6 days at the current pool hashrate. However, as mentioned, you'll also continue to receive ramp down payouts for approximately 6 days after you stop mining.
PPLNS = "After a block is found, payment is configured based on a maximum set number of shares instead of just distributing rewards based on the total number of shares during that round. If a user does not have any shares in the window of shares that are being rewarded, there will be no payment to the user. This window of accepted shares can pay out miners from past rounds even if they did not participate in the current round. The number of shares contained in a PPLS reward system vary based on the level of difficulty set to each block."
Thanks for the reply. So based on yours and the above definition is the window, the level of difficulty or the shift (of aprrox 50 mins)? And because of the current '5Nd' each share gets paid out roughly over 6 days currently. Could you post the calc for this? "204.15PHs which means the 5Nd 'ramp' is roughly 6days 4hrs."