This coin is no simple clone. We have implemented the wesleyh client before NXT did it, and there were several changes in the source. Also the dev will release a windows .exe client with chat and decentralised dice game!
Can you summarise the changes in the source?
I can see:
- A new genesis block
- Some features that were launched whilst Nxt was live, and so were enabled at some certain block number in Nxt, are enabled from the first NAS block (no need to wait for block 22000 for aliases, for instance); also start TF early to get around Nxt injected flaw
- Amounts are stored as longs instead of ints (required, as NAS has more coins than an int allows) *
- Changes to TCP port numbers
- Change all references to "NXT" to be "NAS"
- A nice message thanking the Nxt community for their efforts
- If no well known peers are configured, default to hardcoded nascoin.no-ip.biz rather than pick up random addresses from (presumably there's no nxtcrypto.org / nxtbase.com / mynxt.info available to pick them up from)
All of those (except the nice message) are basically the minimum required to be a clone?
EDIT: I don't think there's anything wrong with it being a clone. A clone is fine.