Im cool with all the possible outcomes ha

I vote Option #1.

no transfers. idc about my 40m and 40 sets of rune... a million fires and airs. I think im fucked over anyway as my old email address no longer works. I vote for a fresh start. 90m range xp wasnt that hard so im down for the struggle all over again.

Anyone know an estimated time we will be able to play?

I vote we can transfer stats, but not items. A lot of people cant devote a ton of time to grinding and skilling to make enough gp to stake/pk; so starting with combat stats and some skills would be helpful to rebuild banks and get the new economy rolling. If items were also transferred the economy would be insta-ruined (like old emu days).

But the popular trend of new servers has been like:

Everyone trains combat up..
Then everyone skills/farms for gp..
Then player base drops cause people get bored of grinding..
Then nobody pk or stakes cause the few players that don't quit are still grinding.

How can we get people staking and pking sooner without having to grind for a month for stats/bank and potentially quit and without ruining an economy?

I nearly agree I think? Keep skilling stats and items from unity. Take away gp and rares.
All new players that joined unity I gave them rune stuff and bits to get started, so newbies won't quit when they have full rune etc 🙂

For the economy to work, the auction house will dictate values for items. Hopefully this attempt of it will work and be better in the long run.

Staking lul...

Disable dueling for one day a week, set whole world wilderness with some safe spots obviously. Wilderness levels based on town activity (more players = higher level). Maybe make it so you dont lose anything if you die but you would spawn again in random location anywhere on the map (excluding some quest related areas)

There is no chance that the V1 and 2 money and rares would be transferred.
The main point is that whilst Unity was live, quite a few players played, and spent money on their shit. We stayed with Pyru.
Personally I'm not asking for everything. I just want Unity Stats and skilling items.
If you've ever had 99 smithing, you'd appreciate how long it takes.

Here is what we are doing.... IF we transfer characters over it should be with 0 items... We can have the rich come on and be kings of the server with lvl 3's that have nothing by a bronze long or iron dagger.

In most peoples cases, they want their character transferred because of the skilling stats. Which is what I want out of all of this..
Combat stats are easy to get. Fair enough about items, I don't believe we need the full banks. But a bit of something such has ores/bars etc we have banked would be good. As (talking as a smither) we can then manufacture weapons and armor for people. And with the auction house. We can regulate the costs better instead of paying daft money for stuff.

Just bring back the characters(v1 and v2), we don't need the fancy pixel hats, we need the fancy r2hs.

for those that didnt play v1 and v2 lose out? fuck that. ur alienating lot of players.

fresh start fair to everyone

im gonna pk your asses in mith and addy

We shall see about that..

there was about 50 000 Characters created near the end of emu v2. So quite a few played it over the years 😄