The first STATIC registered on each level (Level 1 already has 498) will pay ZERO fees and the last registered will pay the MAXIMUM fee. This will be scaling fees system that is being designed to inspire a balanced fill of the 3 levels of STATIC nodes.
Keep in mind that these fees are shared with the STATIC network ONLY... Therefore, 100% of the fees is an income if you own a STATIC node, and as Nick has pointed out in his post - more income will result when the DApps start coming online in the future.
This is good news. Fees are paid out to current node owners. Expecting nodes to draw quite a nice amount of income once they are activated and/or registration begins. I am thinking that the people who ended up breaking their Level 1 STATICs mus be kicking themselves right now.
I sure I know I would be. Keep in mind that a platform is being built, so it takes time. This is NOT an erc-20 token copy/pasta job. I've been an investor in XBY for over 6 months now, and have no plans to break one of my nodes. Craziness at this point imo