The problem with the coin is somehow related to the fact that the copy paste clone forgot to change something and so it tries to add litecoin nodes as peers. Then the estimated blocks becomes as high as litecoins, then you can't mine because the client thinks it is out of sync.  I posted about this several times and PM'd the dev Astrocoin, but he never replied to the pm or in the thread.  He is too worried about all the drama surrounding the premine and all the scam accusations to actually make a stable working coin.