BTC is going to continue to climb over the next few months and, if things just keep chugging along as they are, the VTC trend may not reverse itself anytime soon. A few pumps here/there will certainly be sprinkled in but, as somebody mentioned earlier, all that does is create some easy exit points and further weaken things. I think a reverse-multipool would be a good idea so that people can mine scrypt coins and auto-trade for VTC (this is what we're building for Murraycoin once it goes Scrypt-2048) - it helps to counteract the auto-dumps coming the other way and stabilize things. Perhaps this already exists but maybe marketing should be improved for it/them as it offers a great way to help level the playing field. Most of what needs to be done should be coming from the community; too many people sit around, helpless, begging for updates and waiting for the dev to come save the day (as a coin dev myself, I know the feeling) - it needs to be a community effort. If the coin isn't broken... let the dev worry about the coin, the integrity of the network, etc and the community should be handling everything else.