Yes we have the main 3 levels of crop hoppers, but what if we have a few more? I suggest also confirming if we would like to purchase a crophopper as if we accidently click on one we buy it then and there. But if we were to have a mega crophopper that could do maybe 3 chunks and collect certain like so: (X|^|X where ^ = mega crophopper) and since the original is $50k we would price it at around $135k gives incentive to buy bigger. Also an ULTRA CROPHOPPER its a 3x3 that's nine chunks. You would place it in between all nine chunks. Price would be around $400k which is fair and again is incentive to buy bigger.

I'm new to forums on anything, but I do have more ideas!!

 

I already have a suggestion for having a two-step purchase process for buying a crop hopper open

For the rest of the suggestion to put it a little bluntly, it's not that great. The crop hoppers were added in the first place to deal with major farm issues that were causing significantly low tps, and since then it's solved a lot. Now, the crop hopper is the only good way to make money and the top farms make millions every single day alone, it's already super easy to make money from it and we don't need a cropper that's even better than the ones now. 135k and 400k may sound like a lot, but even myself with not one of the biggest farms could afford 3-4 135k ones a day or at least 1 400k a day and I don't even make the highest amount possible or even half of it. Anything better than the crop hoppers we have now would be an outrageous inflation to the already inflated economy really

 

Not sure how a mega cropper would make any difference as we are limited to 5x5 chunks. Price would be the same and crops harvested would be the same. Only advantage to this could be a reduction in waterways moving crops around.

 

It sounded more to me like it was being suggested to increase the intake of crops as well, but larger sized ones without an increase in collection rate would be an eh addition yes. It doesn't really do much except change how people collect their items

 

Items through standard hoppers only move at about 5 per second. Which is too slow to carry away all items collected by 2 lvl 3 croppers. An ultra hopper as you’re suggesting would fill fast and then only be as useful as two level 3 croppers but take up 9 chunks so you actually lose all production from seven chunks because the ultra cropper is full and can’t empty quick enough. Even a 3 chunk cropper will lead to a loss of 1 chunk’s production per cropper.

Additionally, when croppers feed into droppers that eject items with a fast red stone pulse, the fastest pulse is about 3 per second. This is the limiting factor. So any cropper taking more than 3 per second will result in losses.

Bottom line. We don’t want to increase the intake of the cropper beyond 3 items per second because we can’t get the items out quick enough.