I have another request for the multi-port settings...
You have it mine LTC, however, it takes HOURS and HOURS of mining, with the current available hashing-power. Sure, you COULD hit a block once you switch everyone over... but you "switch" too fast, to another pool, and leave the actual "mining" to the few who are dedicated miners in that pool. (Eg, you are pool-hopping in a bad way, on your own server.
It's not really the same as pool hopping. Pool hopping is when you mine right after the beginning of a new block, on a proportional reward system, then hop off to another pool that just found a block, always hoping for a quick block. If a quick block is found, you get a larger than average reward, and if not, you are still paid for the shares. PPLNS avoids this issue by dropping pool hoppers' shares, but only when the pool takes longer than N to find a block. If the pool finds a block in less than N shares, the pool hopper still gets paid for their shares.
On multipool, we do not generally have this situation. The multiport miners come in and out and submit shares over the course of the whole block. Once a block is found, all miners are paid based on the shares they submitted over the round. It's certainly possible for multiport shares to be dropped, if LTC winds up being profitable only during the first couple hours of a new block and the block turns out to be a long block, but this is not going to be the situation the majority of the time.
I would suggest...
1: Do not hop into a pool where you can not find at-least ONE block in 30 minutes. Based off your hashing-power/difficulty of your traveling pool-members + steadfast pool-members. (Eg, if you estimate that your total hashing-power would result in NOTHING found in 4 hours, mining there... then ignore that pool from the hop.)
On the other hand, we wouldn't have found those two extra LTC blocks yesterday without the multiport miners. It's a double-egded sword -- the single port miners might not like sharing their rewards with the multiport miners, but if more blocks are found due to the increased hash rate, the rewards should even out.
2: Re-calculate only after 10 minutes, and only AFTER at-least ONE block has been found in the pool you are in now, before hopping to a new pool. Thus, your pool-hoppers will have actually "earned" that collected share value. (As opposed to staying in a pool for 10 min, not having found anything, switching, and HOPE that someone still there mining, does find a coin, and now has to split it with the swarm that just sucked-up his/her efforts.)
Most pools other than LTC find multiple blocks in 10 minutes.
3: Offer us an "auto-convert", for those coins we don't actually want, into a coin we do want... (LTC/BTC, etc...) You could do that internally, though a little complex, it saves us from having to collect coins we don't wish to support. Plus, gives us the "immediate" reward for the "mining value" which we were mining for.
No, I'm not going to do this. I have no interest in being an exchange. See if you can get an exchange operator to implement auto-sell. Then you can set a low threshold and send all your mined coins direct to the exchange to be sold. Or you can just write a bot to do it.
4: Don't move both pools at once, stratum and getwork. Move getwork first, since there is that delay... then move stratum, or create another pool to split the larger stratum, and delay each entry/exit from pool to pool. Makes less of a "shock" to the system and traffic-collisions/routing.
I'm not sure what problem this is trying to solve. Can you elaborate?
5: Since "you" are moving us... you should get that PPS&PPLNS with a 50/50 setup done, ASAP. Since PPLNS is intended to STOP pool-hopping. (I would not do PPS 100% until another 100-200MHs are added to the pools. They are coming soon! You just have to creatively show them the value over BTC and LTC mining... In your signature perhaps... Simply show/say... 3200KHs = $550 USD a month, mining scrypt-coins at MultiPool.)
Thanks for the suggestions, I appreciate the constructive feedback.
