Peercoin and primecoin both are top quality. A bit too safe though. They will go up for sure but it seems like a lot of smaller coins will go up a lot more.

I would like to know what coins the developer of ppc is working on now.

Your point about gambling is very true. Some devs though do genuinely have some purpose for their coin, some way it adds value to the coin evonomy. I should have listed that as a requirement for a pick.

c) Coin dev must have some vision greater than simple profit.

digitalcoin I'd put in a class with bytecoin except that digitalcoin is already very expensive.