If many person complain about N=12, so this is a problem. Cant you see a lot miner has gone after n=12?
You ask someone to mine dogecoin because he just give a suggestion. After a few days, there will only you left to mine this coin, is this you want? Do you want UTC be the next BoschiCoin (have you hear this, dead now) or BlackCoin (price is going to the moon)?
I actually have no insight into whether there are more or less miners on UTC now or two weeks ago - It's not like the N factor change schedule is a secret, everyone knew it was coming, and knows when the next one is scheduled to be. I do know that other coins at higher N factors actually have more miners now than they did at NF = 11. I have no influence in the direction of this coin - bumface will either change things, or he won't, based on his beliefs. My beliefs are that high N-Factors are all-around better, and help avoid the power and ASIC escalation seen in the SHA256 and Scrypt-coin world. Everyone has to play by the same rules for a given coin, so if you're saying you've got to compromise on your configuration, guess what? Other people do too..
The problem is too rapid change in n-factor.
The change is too fast and not needed for the day.
It starts to slow up, and mining at NF = 14 is still fairly easy - that takes you all the way out to January of next year. NF=15 could be okay too, but no coin has done it yet, so I've never had to. I'm fairly confident my miners will be just fine when that first coin (YACoin) switches to NF=15 though.
Why? because it forces many to purchase additional memory modules to mine still effectively.
You can mine with 4 2GB cards or 2 4GB cards with 4 GB just fine. Until you want to go with more of either, 4GB of system ram is sufficient. The N factor is not explicitly the cause of needing more system RAM, it's allocating GPU memory. If you want to be the guy who runs 4 R9 290X's, I think you can find the 50 quid to spring for an 8 GB configuration instead of a 4GB configuration.
