Actually, i think what they have in mind is trying to keep character's levels only.
The merge of the 3 servers being unavoidable, there is the story related to that ... i don't know if you have an english translation to read, but we had explanations from Tamarea in Aniro, that you can read and try to translate here
This cataclysmic event seems to me the best way to build this new community of players, and save the most "realistic" story, and has to involve the loss of items.
Guilds can be made again, items can be found and crafted again fast.
Levels, it's obviously an another story, especially for non-fighting skills.
I think the reason for a simple wipe is that it is fast and easy to do, while the new server has to be fast playable
The staff is working on keeping levels of char.
That will require time, and work.
Keeping more, is taking more time, and more work. If the brutal wipe was intialy announced, there can't be so much time available.
The merge of the 3 servers being unavoidable, there is the story related to that ... i don't know if you have an english translation to read, but we had explanations from Tamarea in Aniro, that you can read and try to translate here
This cataclysmic event seems to me the best way to build this new community of players, and save the most "realistic" story, and has to involve the loss of items.
Guilds can be made again, items can be found and crafted again fast.
Levels, it's obviously an another story, especially for non-fighting skills.
I think the reason for a simple wipe is that it is fast and easy to do, while the new server has to be fast playable
The staff is working on keeping levels of char.
That will require time, and work.
Keeping more, is taking more time, and more work. If the brutal wipe was intialy announced, there can't be so much time available.