I am probably going against my interests in running a masternode, but if I were you, I'd go for 1000 coins. That still makes it possible to have a couple hundred masternodes, but you don't have to deal with guys on the cheap who run them from home on their DSL line.

Masternodes should not just be a cornucopia for rent-seekers, but be operated by guys who take the job serious, secure their servers and have somewhat beefy VPS's. Unsecured TOR nodes aren't a good thing.

That said, I am not sure if I could cough up the $5K or what a 1000-coin mn would cost in Dec, so I'd just run a servicenode for a smaller slice of the pie.