Information About Upgrade-able Hoppers

[DaddyJulius]

Thanks to doing some research and finding the SyncCraft server plugin, as well as wasting a lot of time and in-game currency purchasing far too many of these things, I bring you the lowdown on our "upgraded hoppers".
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Levels
The hoppers can be upgraded up to 5 times, each level adds more range and the amount of items that can be moved at once, level 2 upwards adds suction which makes the hopper able to collect items dropped on a block around it. So if it has a suction of 1 block all around the hopper for a 1 block radius it will collect items, in total you get a 3x3 area.
To upgrade a hopper you can either use your money or XP and every time you upgrade it costs more to go to the next level.
Level 1 >> 2 = 60 levels of XP / $50,000
Level 2 >> 3 = 80 levels of XP / $100,000
Level 3 >> 4 = 100 levels of XP / $200,000
Level 4 >> 5 = 120 levels of XP / $300,000

Level 1
Range: 10 (So another hopper/container can be placed anywhere within 10 blocks of this)
Amount: 5 (Can move 5 items at a time)
Suction: 0

Level 2
Range: 20
Amount: 10
Suction: 1

Level 3
Range: 30
Amount: 20
Suction: 2

Level 4
Range: 40
Amount: 40
Suction: 3

Level 5
Range: 50
Amount: 60
Suction: 4
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Edit:
Thanks Dacon, updated as per your
http://forums.manacube.com/threads/hopper-rework.18393/

Now we can finally eliminate the need for many hoppers and not be bottle-necked by the old values and costs.

 

[TrueAmerican]

Can you further explain Range? Are you saying that you can link multiple chests to 1 hopper? :0

EDIT: I feel like i'm missing something

 

[DaddyJulius]

you can link a hopper to any other hopper, chest, or dropper as far away as the range value.