@SoapDog

Could be, however I'm not very keen on supporting 3 hops as an option. I don't want to encourage it.

Other problem is that you would need to restart patchwork for the change to take effect.

If people know what they're doing and are happy to modify config files, then fine with me. But hop config is going to be a lot lot less useful once out-of-order messages is implemented and 3 hops will just make things slower and less efficient.