Why would Quark developers not implement masternodes technology in their coin? With this technology, the coin will get a new life and will have a very huge increase in price.
Problem with masternodes is that Quark is already mined,so masternodes like ones in DASH are not applicable.There are no mining reward for them.Though,going completely POS with 2.5-3% annual reward for masternodes(1 mil Quarks),where 10% goes for developpers work could be sucessfull.
We're having internal discussions right now regarding a change in the inflation percentage in order to promote mining/staking which would then also provide income for masternodes as well. Max is looking at POS/POW implementations right now. We're also looking at 10% for development as well.