Stick with your original plan and have patience since 'real' community involvment vs. most of the 'sock puppetry' seen (more so in the past around here in alt coins but still now with some more 'famous coins') are shams.
I respect that you are continuing to support your project.
One 'possible' idea to consider is to partner with another coin with the same algo and (depending on which is dominant) think about merge mining with them as either the parent or child coin.
Merge mining is the mining of the future. Same hash power running multiple chains.....
Since the necessary code for adding the aux pow for scrypt 1024 is well tested with ltc and doggie coin as is pool software and other things teaming up with another coin dev. team that is legit, honest , and willing to be your partner may make sense ......
Just an idea, I have no suggestions as to who ..... that would be up to you and your team to consider.
Glad to see you still rolling.
and will prolly get blocked again for posting this)