no coin can start with ASICs, but ASIC mining ultimately creates stability and makes it harder, not easier, for someone to rapidly attain 51% of the network, at least if you can create an ecosystem where you by far outnumber other users of the ASIC.
We have started with scrypt, and almost all miners are smaller ASICs, the network is stable. I wrote this to a GPU miner yesterday, I feel it is applicable to what you say:
GPU miners can't mine it fairly, it's impossible, arguments there in wiki ain't make GPU owners to mine it. Lots of Titans will land on this coin and in a week expect incredible difficulty. You have to make it at least scrypt-n, so home miners can win several months. This is it. Good luck.
GPU miners can mine Bitmark fairly, you will receive an amount of BTM according to how much hashrate you commit
to securing the networking for it's users.
Mining is a service offered, not a money printing machine. If you offer a less efficient service that is not as beneficial to the users then your service will not generate as much revenue.
Technology progresses over time, GPU miners made CPU miners redundant, ASICs make GPUs redundant.
You keep up or
you fall behind.
I am the developer, I do not have an asic, I cannot mine the coin I created. When I can I will buy an asic to do so, and if I want to sooner I will hire one, or later buy some BTM, but that is speculation on my part.
My service is not mining, my service is developing. If your service is mining then treat it as a business and upgrade your hardware, or target your service at people who require gpu hashing to secure their network.
Bitmark's focus is on it's users, the decision to use scrypt is in
their best interests, to keep
their network reliable and secure.