I think it is still recoverable if we can come up with some new features to attract people back to the coin, especially with the low difficulty. I hate to say it but being a bit spammy probably wouldn't hurt.
By looking through the forums the main thing people seem to want from coins (other than big exchanges) are games and competitions. How about a banner / coin design competition for actual designs paid in NDL? Again, possibly a bounty for someone to setup a games site that accepts NDL?
The other thing might be straight advertising, I got the idea from this thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=412525.0, thousands of people a day being hit with a Noodle-tastic banner might help! (I have no affiliation with the site)
Avast, we'll 'ave another drive at it me old maties.
How's about a million NDL fer a new logo. Winner to be chosen in a week. 2 runners up will get 350,000 NDL each.
We'll also bounty anyone who sets up a games site with good traffic that accepts NDL to the tune o' 3 million dubloons. Must be a legit site though with traffic that can effective spread awareness of the coin.
Perhaps some of you would also like to try to get in touch with COFSM to encourage them to accept donations in NDL? We'd certainly make a sizeable NDL donation if that happened.
Get to it!