Just a reminder, if you're like me then you have a couple of pools with one being your main squeeze.

Well, with increasing difficultly your shares per day probably has been taken a hit (and it's only going the one direction).

To avoid a situation in which you have too small of a ltc payoff at one of these other (failover) pools: determine the "real" min payoff (note: a lot have min payoffs that are low - but have a 'fee') so be careful here - it's probably something like 5 ltc that's completely free of fees.

Increase your auto pay at these other pools to something high - then mine up to that "real" min payoff line. After hitting this - go back to your main pool and hash away. If you ever decide to get completely out of the game, then you can decrease the auto pay of these other pools and call it a day.