I read there roadmap and I can't find anything which makes me think now is the time to buy myself some litecoins.
Which of these features is ground breaking innovation? Nothing right. Even if they were, they are far to late.
3 years of being just a bitcoin clone is not helping either.
Improvements to Litecoin Core
A major release of reference client Litecoin Core v0.13.x is due in 2016, featuring the following notable improvements:
Faster signature validation using the libsecp256k library developed by Bitcoin Core developers.
Wallet pruning to reduce block size storage.
Memory usage improvements including better mempool filtering of transactions.
Inbuilt Tor control socket API support if Tor is running and also stream isolation for
Tor communication.
Functionality to reduce upload traffic.
Segregated Witness to allow for greater transaction output and mitigation of
transaction malleability.
ZMQ support – ZeroMQ is a high performance asynchronous messaging library,
aimed at use in distributed concurrent connections. Litecoin will support ZMQ for
broadcasting block and transaction data.
Hierarchical Deterministic wallets – Litecoin Core will support hierarchical
deterministic wallets (a.k.a. HD wallets).
Obfuscated blockchain data – Several antivirus applications detect the Litecoin
stored blockchain data as a malware threat. Litecoin v0.13 will obfuscate the blockchain data to rid these false positives.
It seems litecoin is targeting to be a currency, fast and reliable , nothing sexy, nothing fancy.
If they concentrate on one thing, chances are litecoin will last longer than ETH.