Ok, I have a problem now. I am on Widsoms side, but T3am's as well. I like how the ForgeCraft server runs things, and the way they run things. They are the main reason why I chose not to add GregTech as an additional mod to the server in the first place. The whole aspect in my opinion of the game is to get situated in the server, so once you have got all the necessary things to get a foundation complete, you can go on making awesome project and things to help the community and ultimately, the server. If it takes a long time to even get a foundation going due to the fact that the game is just too difficult to begin with, then I don't see FTB or any modpack being fun in any way. I mean, if you are going to play a game, you want to have fun, or you would not be playing the game in the first place. And if you want to have fun, you want to do it the way you believe in a way you believe will make the game fun. If it takes forever to get situated in the beginning of a game, then it doesn't seem that fun. This is all just my opinion/logic in a way. GregTech certainly makes the game more challenging, and it makes it challenging is such ways that make me just want to quit FTB completely. I really do not want to add GregTech to the server, but I am because some of the members like the new items GregTech has to offer, such as the Industrial Centrifuge.
If you get millions of UU Matter, then that is great for you. You actually spent the time and effort to build something that can be done manually, or you built an awesome factory to do all of this for you, and this makes some sort of satisfaction in you that makes you just want to do other cool stuff that will make you even more proud of yourself. Whist this is happening, you can go about doing other things such as Beekeeping, always knowing that you will have the resources to make and accomplish what you want to do at that certain moment. If you have to stop in the middle of what you are doing because you have ran out of resources, then you have to stop what you want to do to go mining or wood cutting or whatever, and I don't think you want to do that. I am going to leave the way GregTech is at the moment on the server, with the previous options I have chosen from my post prior to this one. Scrap is enabled and Iridium is disabled from spawning, just like it is in original IC2. Now let me note on this. I do understand where you are coming from, Wisdoms. Lots of UU Matter going at fast production speeds is pretty unbalanced. If this does get out of hand, e.g. everyone on the serve has a UUM factory and really outbalances the server, then yes I will disable Scrap and try to balance out the server a bit more. But to start out in such harsh condtions that GregTech adds into FTB, it just makes the game miserable to even begin with in my opinion.
Sorry if reading all that was a bore to you, I just had to get my head all sorted out and just let out everything I have been thinking about. If you have anything wrong with my decision or if you have ideas to change this decision, then please let me know. Better to tell me than to just never tell me and me never thinking about it. Thank you, I hope you have a very good day/night.
-WS
EDIT: Here is an updated GregTech config file. I forgot to add some things in the previous config file release.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/62828086/GregTech cfg v0.2/GregTech.zip