Yes, you need to unlock it for ~5-10 sec each time you start it, after that you can lock it again and still get incentive rewards.
can you confirm that works for you? tried it, when i locked the info showed a negative votescore and "false"
I can confirm, it's working for me. Made few tests on different machines, got incentive reward while wallet was in "locked" state for at least 12 hours.
you don't need any collateral for another week or three, kicks-in @ blk 220,000, i think. and i'd like to understand why the amount is so high also. Mammoth and Supercoin have decentralized coin mixers, colatteral for that system is 500 coin.
wait, what? We can just use an empty wallet as a superpeer at the moment?
At the moment we don't have master nodes. ... collateral has nothing to do with that centralized version of cap
You don't need any collateral to become a superpeer, but you need it to collect the reward(I might be wrong).
You are right, to be eligible for SuperPeer you need to have open port for incoming connections (can be found in config.dat)
"networkstatus": ok
but to get paid for it after block #220000 you will also need 9,999 VNL as collateral in your wallet.