All pools - not just ours - have a payout limit. Our dash pool has a limit of 0.1 DASH. The limit is shown both on the homepage and on each pool's stats section. As soon as you hit that threshold, you get paid everything the pool owes you. The reason for payout limits is to keep transaction costs (which are paid by the pool) in check.

@happyserendipity I've always appreciated your feedback and this is no exception.

Ok Marius, let's settle this once and for all. I agree with you my response was harsh, BUT believe it or not I was not aware of your ticket. If you go through other posts around here you will notice that I'm always trying my best to be patient and helpful - especially to beginners. When I'm not answering tickets or posts here I'm working non-stop to improve the pool and the accompanying website. In light of that it simply hurts to wake up and read yet another accusatory post complaining about something that's well documented in the FAQ and that has been answered here many many times. When the pool was very young and I had not much experience with running a pool, I used to make generous extra payouts to miners complaining about earning not as much as expected only to realize much later that not only everything went correct but that those extra payouts pushed the pool into the red. I had to use my own money to correct those mistakes. I'm here to help and answer every question but I'm human too and we all have bad days. My apologies.

Allright, it exists. Fine. Neither did I receive a notification about it nor is it visible in the admin ticket queue. I'm sorry for not responding to it but I believe I did in this thread and I stand by my response.

Your ticket is nowhere to be found in the ticket history so I'm not sure what you are talking about. I'm usually responding to posts or tickets within minutes (unless I'm asleep of course). 

First you didn't say which pool you are mining on. I'm assuming the Dash pool. If you had that many shares and got zero payout then you stopped mining long before a block was found. I encourage you to read the FAQ Section about this and pay special attention to Round 5. Several miners got paid and its all documented for everyone to see on each pools "Payments" tab.

I'm honestly sick and tired of people accusing our pool or any other pool of cheating without doing minimal research how stuff works on their part. If you don't trust the pool I suggest you move on.

My honest opinion is that you should experiment a bit and stick to what works best for you. My gut feeling is that 100ms should be fine.

@Jim: Nowadays all pools and miners are using the stratum protocol which means your miner maintains a connection to the pool at all times. Ping in turn measures round trip time. Therefore because of the persistent connection you can basically cut you ping time in half to get the real pool-to-miner latency which your case wouldn't be that bad at 95ms average. But I really don't want to convince you to anything. If you feel safer joining a pool closer to you that also has a higher block rate then by all means do it.

Thanks happyserendipity for the thorough explanation. Couldn't have done it any better.

A calculation like that is only possible for a pool using PPS (Pay-Per-Share). Providing a forecast like that for PPLNS requires pretty much to do a simulated payout run every now and then which is quite resource intensive for the pool.