As price increases vs fiat then more money is available to miners. Right now huntercoin is worth 0.02 usd or 2 u.s. cents. At that price most people in the world outside the wealthiest countries are prevented from playing. If the price were usd 1 per huntercoin it would be as it has been. Almost nobody could afford to play unless the price drops dramatically and since there is no way to predict the future price, game cost should be either dynamic, cheap or free.

You are using the phrase 'profitably mined' but the thing that huntercoin offers is 'human mining' which in crypto is going to be a tidal wave eventually, as more and more people realize that they can use the mining of a currency to motivate some human interaction with a computer. The big issue is that if the price were low enough mining farms might take over the coin in poor countries, as is happening with neucoin, which is being dominated by poor Asian workers. Huntercoin should step in front of neucoin and others in that market.  The 'profitably mined' issue is trivial compared to the potential growth of the coin if it is sent wild into poor countries. A very fair coin like huntercoin, which offered practical human mining, i.e., a reasonable fee that did not exclude poor countries, would be a news event.