Quarries won't need to be blacklisted, and the server won't be whitelisted (not that I know of). The no-whitelist is for more players to be able to join, and easier on their part. As for quarries, they aren't a walk in the park to obtain, they take some time to create. Griefers won't take that time just to make a griefing device.

With gregtech, it is really difficult to even get one quarry, let alone 5 or 6.

The quarrys are not the source of the lag anyway. Its the other things that people don't really think about such as IC2 Power Loops, and systems where there is only just not enough power to run it and so the machines are changing states all the time.

As for ranks, we would need to consider, are we even going to use MCPC+? or should we just go with a 'vanilla' modded server and just give op to a handful of people? MCPC+ would allow us to add a bunch of bukkit plugins, some of which are tailored towards modded servers. With this we can limit blocks to ranks, possibly add protections, and give out some friendlier admin tools.

As for modpacks, I recently constructed a modpack that a few of my friends really liked, it is rather similar to the old mindcrack pack.
ModList: All of these mods in the pack seem to have a really nice progression to them. After playing for a week or so I was just making it off of the bronze tier in IC2. No where close to a quarry or other fast mining tools. Ended up rocking a TConstruct set of tools as they were the best option at the time.

One of the problems was Taint from Thaumcraft4. I would assume that we would need to turn this off for the server to work. The other problem is that people could grief others by fully draining their nodes and such. Meaning that players would need to create some strong bases and protect their nodes.

Would we want to play as everyone being happy neighbors where we just build and help each other? or would we want to have some competitive/PVP element. I feel that it may bring people back as you would need to check in and see how things are going. The problem with it is that people won't be making cool builds and fancy automation.

With arbos events that he suggested, they sound really cool, however they may not work too well on modded servers. Wither fights, once people are high tier will be as trivial as killing a zombie. Modded bosses, such as those in the twilight forest would be cool to do as a group, but it seems a bit silly to have them set out on a schedule, I think it would be better if a group of players just decided - 'Hey lets try and conquer this boss' - and then went and did so. Some of the PVP things might be cool we just need a way to structure them and make sure that player X isn't in some God armor and player Y isn't using some super instakill weapon. The buildoffs could be very modpack based, such as 'best way to automate _____'. Players can then make a hugely complex and intricate system or something small and elegant and then the player who finds the best way (not necessarily the cheapest) would win (Perhaps if there are enough contenders we could have multiple prizes for the player who is fastest and the player who did it the most complex).

Anyway if you guys are really serious about this, lets start looking at putting the mod pack together and creating a server

With gregtech, it is really difficult to even get one quarry, let alone 5 or 6.

The quarrys are not the source of the lag anyway. Its the other things that people don't really think about such as IC2 Power Loops, and systems where there is only just not enough power to run it and so the machines are changing states all the time.

As for ranks, we would need to consider, are we even going to use MCPC+? or should we just go with a 'vanilla' modded server and just give op to a handful of people? MCPC+ would allow us to add a bunch of bukkit plugins, some of which are tailored towards modded servers. With this we can limit blocks to ranks, possibly add protections, and give out some friendlier admin tools.

As for modpacks, I recently constructed a modpack that a few of my friends really liked, it is rather similar to the old mindcrack pack.
ModList: All of these mods in the pack seem to have a really nice progression to them. After playing for a week or so I was just making it off of the bronze tier in IC2. No where close to a quarry or other fast mining tools. Ended up rocking a TConstruct set of tools as they were the best option at the time.

One of the problems was Taint from Thaumcraft4. I would assume that we would need to turn this off for the server to work. The other problem is that people could grief others by fully draining their nodes and such. Meaning that players would need to create some strong bases and protect their nodes.

Would we want to play as everyone being happy neighbors where we just build and help each other? or would we want to have some competitive/PVP element. I feel that it may bring people back as you would need to check in and see how things are going. The problem with it is that people won't be making cool builds and fancy automation.

With arbos events that he suggested, they sound really cool, however they may not work too well on modded servers. Wither fights, once people are high tier will be as trivial as killing a zombie. Modded bosses, such as those in the twilight forest would be cool to do as a group, but it seems a bit silly to have them set out on a schedule, I think it would be better if a group of players just decided - 'Hey lets try and conquer this boss' - and then went and did so. Some of the PVP things might be cool we just need a way to structure them and make sure that player X isn't in some God armor and player Y isn't using some super instakill weapon. The buildoffs could be very modpack based, such as 'best way to automate _____'. Players can then make a hugely complex and intricate system or something small and elegant and then the player who finds the best way (not necessarily the cheapest) would win (Perhaps if there are enough contenders we could have multiple prizes for the player who is fastest and the player who did it the most complex).

Anyway if you guys are really serious about this, lets start looking at putting the mod pack together and creating a server

Sure yeah, That list I provided was only a suggestion. As you can see it contains 'DiscoTek' written by Heldplayer and I :p

Please note that we are not accepting anymore public or semi public packs. Your still welcome to submit them, but they will most likely be denied unless they are properly unique and never been done before with a very unique idea.

As for modpacks, I recently constructed a modpack that a few of my friends really liked, it is rather similar to the old mindcrack pack.
ModList:
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The monster pack and the direwolf20 one seem to have most of the mods. The only thing they don't have is gregtech, but we can add that.

I don't like the pack customizations.

I would just like the server up.