So is this intended to complement Monero / AEON? Or would it provide similar service in a different region/group. Im on board totally with this family of coins, but Just trying to see what people think is different about them. Specifically this and AEON.
Basically SUMO is a Monero clone with the fastest growing community and fair developers. It demonstrated that it can survive attacks and implement solid fixes without disrupting functionality of the code. Stable and continuous development and open communication from dev team makes me believe that this is "LTC to Monero". It doesn't have a lot of resources like Monero, but it's obvious there is a way more dynamic progress - GUI wallet, easy miner etc.. in just a few months.
In contrast to that Aeon is considered to be a light version of Monero, mostly due to participation of smooth, who with his professor-like rhetoric is able to manipulate community into believing in the future and supporting what I consider a dead coin (now it's a second time it went dead). Despite the weak code it was pumped recently and miners are heavily pushing diff higher. Once they start to shift large amount of coins around they may realize how weak the code is. There is two years period where only fixes were implemented in a very unprofessional way ( no testing, rollback, fix of a fix..) and to me it still looks very outdated, missing features and eating all memory. While it is marketed as cryptonote-light, it's just minor tweak of protocol to make it look like you get double hashing power and more revenue. It is still not using db to store the blockchain and randomly strange things can happen. I was not able to send coins for a week, transaction went out but was not confirmed for days. Rescan of the wallet showed coins again, but transfer was not possible due to "invalid transaction". To me as end user it is a platform I don't trust at all.
Anyway I wish bright future to both coins and supporters of them and I hope next year there will be finally some real world usage of SUMO and massive growth in traded volume.