You are not being explicit.  "Aiming for 100k" ...how?  In what way?  I have a mining rigs currently and have no problem with setting those up for ltc rpc btc...   but instructructions on youtube or even here on this site have lead me my issue above.  Please see my initial post about the above issue...
The point that is being made here is that the Nxt faucet isn't going to be enough for you to "forge" in any reasonable time frame.  If you want to forge 1 block every couple of days, you need to have about 100,000 Nxt -- an investment of about $6000USD at current rates.
The "mining" culture that you appear to come from is not applicable to Nxt.  It's a totally different animal, and mining (AKA forging) doesn't work the same way.  It's far more smart to BUY some Nxt and trade it, if you're in it for profit.
I can't help "debug" why you didn't get coins from the faucet because you didn't supply very much information.  What is your account number?  We can check to see if a transaction was sent from the faucet, at least.
Finally, I recommend you read the 
FAQ on the wiki!