I need help with a couple questions for setting my server up, please. is there any way you could show me the configuation for x2 gather? so i could copy and paste into my configuration file?

Using Gather Manager plugin, in the GatherManager.json in your configs folder, use this : 

"GatherResourceModifiers": {
"Wood": 2.0,
"Stones": 2.0,
"Cloth": 2.0,
"Sulfur Ore": 2.0,
"Metal Ore": 2.0
},