I think it is a political decision, not a technical, to reset all player achievements to zero. And I am pretty sure, if not revoked, it will kill the game. This is, unfortunately, a somewhat self-fulfilling prophecy. I shall clearly not grind on the new server to get back the 18 masters, all occupations, and all levels above 151 except 6 fighting skills still between 101 and 150. The reason is that I do not expect the game to survive for the 18 months it took me to achieve that in the first place.
If the devs want to restore the player values it can easily be done automatically. Bit different may be restoration or preservation of items. If a player may apply for even after the merge, the old item stock values would have to be preserved. This is probably somewhat awkward a procedure. Alternatively, a player may select one or two beloved items (the famous yubo, or my 250 tekorn daggers ;), for example) to transfer to the new server.
If the devs want to restore the player values it can easily be done automatically. Bit different may be restoration or preservation of items. If a player may apply for even after the merge, the old item stock values would have to be preserved. This is probably somewhat awkward a procedure. Alternatively, a player may select one or two beloved items (the famous yubo, or my 250 tekorn daggers ;), for example) to transfer to the new server.
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