Unfortunately, as of now, HKC has a market value of 3 satoshi per coin. Then 2.5% premined HKC has a value of 0.45 BTC.
Yes, it is a pointless scam at this moment, but this is not HKC dev's original target.
Luckily miners/traders here understand that HKC suffers from various problems (coingen coin, problematic faucet, no integrity, problematic block explorer, etc), and understand that HKC is SCAM.
I (and I think almost everyone) would be astonished if HKC reaches anywhere the same value as AUR had, or has now. The situations are very, very different.
HKC's premine is sort of like picking a random generic coin (taxi coin, or whatever) and saying it could be worth a fortune. Yeah, I guess in theory anything is possible. It just seems incredibly unlikely.
As for my point, I meant if the dev wanted to scam people, he's going about it in a really inept way. He'd go with a larger premine for starters, as most nation coins go the 50% premine. He is using 2.5% on a faucet (albeit a leaky one). So either he is honest, or a really inept scammer.
And yes, it's possible he's a scammer. I just don't like people yelling out 'scam' all over the place without any proof. By trolling his threads (to an incredible extent), and making really outrageous claims at times, your sincerity becomes a huge question mark. Whenever I see someone yell scam, for weeks on end, countless posts, and making claims without any merit, I either think they are being paid for FUD, or have a mental disorder.
Anyway, take the dev up on his offer of having a competent 3rd party audit his coin. It probably can put to rest the coingen stuff too. I will add, I have never seen a dev make that sort of offer to anyone trolling their threads before, so if he is scamming someone, he is sure going about it in a weird way.