I haven't researched this coin much but at a valuation of $6,000,000 USD... seems like you're getting ripped off to me.
Litecoin has a marketcap of $151M while Dogecoin $14M, and we are talking about 2 forks with insignificant changes. There are plenty of others that could be added on the 0 innovation list. The only problem with Emercoin is that the team is not investing anything in marketing. This is the only problem, because technology-wise, they just got validated by Microsoft Azure.
So far Microsoft Azure adopted Ripple (200M marketcap), Ethereum (71M marketcap), Factom (5.5M) and the last one, Emercoin (6.5M).
I would be nice to see this image posted in the first page of the ANN as It should provide sufficient information for those that just found out about Emer.
So far i'm impressed by what they are trying to accomplish and there's plenty of good quality documentation in the main website, although it wouldn't be bad to have a less technical presentation of all the technologies. Something that an average techie/investor could understand (real world usage, potential, comparison between other technologies available on the market etc).
For example, i always wanted to know if "EMCDPO - Digital proof of ownership with EmerCoin" could replace "Factom". I see similarities between them, but i need a better explanation. A better understanding of what are advantages of EMCDPO over Factom or vice-versa. Or if there's any competitivity between the technologies at all.
Its just a key value system and its using old namecoin code with bugs and unoptimized.
Infact he didnt even bother renaming namecoin code just used it as is and no unit tests more importantly.
its really an apples and oranges comparison..Im not sure but isnt factom p2p? or does it store data on chain aswell? through opreturn on bitcoin if im remembering correctly?