A pre-announced and fair release might be a good way to start off and a working diff adjust would be a good followup?
Coins that start with high difficulty generally go nowhere as early miners are the ones who stick around and do the hard work. I have seen coins with high starting difficulty just sink and do not want to share their fate. Abundance of coins allows people to buy in fairly cheap as well. Low starting difficulty has its merit. There is no premine or early block with extra large rewards like many other coins. This coin is still more fair than the majority that we see launched. Some people are never happy though

I only mentioned this coin yesterday on the altcoin forum but did not want to gives a heads up to megaminers who would remove the chance of anyone else getting coins. It is only going to be so long before they come along but maybe KGW will be running by then.
I agree, it seems like a smooth launch so far.