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.
I checked the net.cpp and this seems untrue.
Type getpeerinfo and you will see it is definitely adding litecoin nodes. I've posted a couple times in this thread the results of geetpeerinfo showing litecoin nodes as peers. Once litecoin nodes are added the client goes out of sync, because the estimated blocks gets set to the height of the litecoin blockchain, and you can no longer mine. This definitely affected me when solomining, and I assume it is why the pools keep going down.
I don't know why it is allowing litecoin nodes as peers, but it definitely is. My litecoin client was also adding astrocoin nodes as peers, you can tell by the block height and client versions, but since the litecoin chain has more blocks it has no effect on litecoin.