Towards the end of the video I do show just such a flower.
However I believe that the loss of 1 relay and a few collectors is more than made up for by the fact that the teleport pipe that replaces them, can be fed into from however many sources you want.
It's just a theoretical concept really that I wanted to try out.
I might have to make a 17/5 flower as you say, and make my version with 10 or so modules feeding it, run both for an hour and see what happens.
But that's a lot of work..
Re: Niavmai, thanks for the tip
Was a little tricky as I was just using my turtle beach headset to record, and on the test runs I did it was really quiet.
So I cranked the volume boost and moved the mic closer, maybe a lil too close.