it will give you alot of problems forking a coin in development and working on it. there were projects forking darkcoin in 2014, almost all of them are gone. it would make sense to fork now dash, but not a system in development. it was the same with bitcoin, there were alot of forks, all gone.
-i think you are underestimating the problematics
-make a good coin, another coin, start from scratch, make an unique coin.
this looks like a scam and probably is, even with good intentions. alot of people starting with good intentions and end bad.
then what is your definition of 'scam'?