So why 20% fees for masternode payments? This essentially will create twice as many nodes and create a much higher cost to spy on the network. It also creates a larger feedback loop for the price (because as darkcoin is taken out of the supply, it drives the price up), which is good for all of the investors and security of DarkSend. Miners will get less coin, but it's been proven time and time again that when you decrease the coins generated the price will just go up to meet the cost of mining.
Avoid multiple tickets for masternodes. It will reduce number of nodes making the system less resilient.
No! Forcing people to manage over 2 dozen separate boxes only generates orders of magnitude more opportunities for human error. Too much of a good thing. I'd rather have one node hardened as hell becasue it's holding a million in DRK. Watch to see how often a node gets elected to know how much is in it.. Only adds that much more incentive to make sure people are securing the nodes and thus securing the network. We've already got somebody who was sloppy enough to get robbed... Maybe they'll start taking it more seriously when they can put 50,000 drk in one node, eh?
Most importantly, miltu-entry to vote pool doesn't mean you're REQUIRED to go that way... You can still do all the VMs you want with 1000DRK each. This just creates the option to consolidate, it doesn't require it.
There have also been concerns levied about there being too many masternodes. Too many chiefs and not enough indians.