Here's a tip. I'm in the same boat as you all. Lots of wasted time and lots of wasted opportunity where we all could have been generating better revenue mining other ALTs.
Keep your ears open for Maxwell Coin. Not much talk about it yet but I know the development team personally. Interesting ideas coming together. Will be based around NVIDIAs new Maxwell Architecture, but also mineable by CPU at modest profit/block rewards. Not much else I can say, just keep a look out. Follow my twitter below I'll announce more when I know more and am allowed to.
Good luck till then friends.
Oh, neat! Any idea when they'll ANN? And any idea if it will work well for older nvidia cards? Otherwise it seems like it'll be crazy exclusive

Coins that focus just on the mining algorithm are dead from the start.
It's not the miners that dictate the price anymore.
It's the hype , the traders , the actual use of a coin.
this whole struggle on finding new algos is a waste of time.
Hence the trouble MYR is having.