It is has excellent development team
Secondly, 1 minute target time on block finding.
Current norm is 2.5 minutes, which can produce an unlucky stuck block for merchants of up to 23 minutes
Therefore, worse case scenario, unlucky stuck blocks is only 9.2 minutes
Secondly, the more talented the developer team; the more likely they'll be to produce unexpected improvements. Talent is not something that can be proved by pieces of paper, but is measured in new outputs e.g. hard forks, new algos, wallet designs
Thirdly, development team is very good organizationally, again this is not proved by pieces of paper, but judged by speed and smoothness of the entire network performance
Fourthly, the 1st Block halving is not until 2019, buying in small bits and pieces, you can end up with large holding, by spreading purchases out over a long time reduces the risk of dropping coin prices due the machinations amongst miners and developers
The reason the price is sliding is simple: the public sgminer Neoscrypt mining software is rubbish. A number of coders have produced modded kernels that hash at 590mhs, instead of 323mhs with a R9 290 GPU as an example.
This has been sold on to other miners, therefore the general macro economics of coin distribution is messed up
Therefore, 10% of miners are mining at 193% hash output, 90% of miners are hashing at 100%: therefore, you have 19% mining for short term profitability reasons (on newish alt coin it should be under 15%), which creates extra sell pressures on the exchanges and the coin price trends downwards over time.
The developers team could purchase the modded kernel, from someone like Wolf0 (AMD) for a couple of Bitcoins and publicly release it to all miners, but they don't. Let's not speculate why they don't
Currently, you can buy a neoscrypt CCminer (Nvidia) for while as an exclusive offering, which x3 hashes of official cgminer 50khs on 750ti GPU, its performance level is raised to 150khs. That, CCminer will only get a public release when it passes 5BTC in crowdingfunding, donators get early access
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/neoscrypt-algo-for-ccminer-and-nvidia-card-call-for-donation-916336This kind of stuff happens a lot on the minor algos
