Mig and Jig,
The vertcoin community and the development team are aware that vertcoin inflation may be an issue and is taken seriously at this time. Please don't feel that the community is not listening and your inputs are taken into consideration. This is why the development team have brought this concern to the public and are doing their best to find a resolution. In addition, to constantly abuse the community for over a month does not speed up the process, nor does it make your argument any better.
MaxCoin played with their coin supply, from memory. It didn't do them any good the way they went about it.
I think you need to consider the mining algo first. Vert is supposed to be ASIC free, but GPU friendly?
Well, rather than just having a halving, why not make coin supply reduce steadily, and introduce algo change hard forks every 2-3 years. That would impact ASIC ROI if they were ever introduced. Then look at some energy efficient algo or group of them.
I've been reading up on darkcoin and how they are going to change the way they handle forks. They are introducing a way to reduce the impact of forks if they don't go very well. Go and ask them for some intel.