Nice to hear from this project. I had participated in one of the earliest beta tests but then lost interest as it looked a bit like vaporware, sorry.
Being the fastest altcoin does not give you much benefit. Dogecoin is already quite fast in my opinion and there are many coins which are fast but are nowhere near adoption.
The crucial factor is not only "being fast", but being able to guarantee a secure network with no bottlenecks when transaction number is high. That means that the currency must provide enough incentive for full nodes to provide storage capacity and bandwidth.
If eMunie does manage this without too much centralization - the "partition system" is interesting - then it's a real progress for cryptocurrencies.
Fair enough, I get that development has been long, and people lost interest etc...
The purpose of the partitions is to go some way to guarantee those properties. Ledger data/channels are allocated to partitions as per their ID, which is random, so distribution of channels around partitions should be sufficiently uniform.
The flip side of that is as you rightly state, that incentives must be high enough to encourage those with the hardware to point it at the network. Nodes are paid for all work they do (not the lottery type deal with BTC), and the fee schedules for various actions in the network top that up further, so this
shouldn't be an issue.
There is zero centralization at all in the platform, nor will there be...this is one of the reasons development has been long. I could have cut corners in the design with super-nodes or whatever, but I didn't want to.
