At least you shouldn't change the number of coins.
Or no investors will be. It's like changing the rules of game when it's in a process.
Look what happened with Saturn coin. In several days after simple split (1:1000) the capitalisation dropped down, about 7 times less.
We are going with what the community has asked for... and looking at the polls, it is clear they would like to drop the amount of coins down at the 1:1000 ratio. This change paired with adding PoS, increasing PoW rewards, etc., all were things that we heard the community yearning for. The TopCoin network as it was could not survive - it wasn't worth mining and thus, the dev team had to dedicate miners to it just to keep the network going. Now, community members can happily mine again, or just stake and help out that way.
What separates us from Saturn and other coins out there, is that actually have utilities in place where you can actively use your TopCoin - not just trade it on exchanges. We will also be continuing work on the Crypto Center once v2 is successfully deployed, so that will provide even more practical tools for all of us to use.
Hopefully, you will see the real value in what we are doing, and go ahead with your votes for TopCoin at Cryptsy. We have been through a lot, have never hid from our community, and will always be working hard to make TOP the best coin out there.