EXP
If people want to play the game, they obviously like playing and do not care alot about doing the quests again and start collecting experience from scratch. Those who don't play active anymore get the chance to sit around on low level, or having more fun with doing the quests and stuff again. It should be fine to keep ones 99'ers in good memory and get some compensation (maybe even something nostalgic), besides letting them sit around and watch them deacy.
ITEMS
I would not really like to see some of the crappy TMW stuff in Evol. There are so many useless items. I would be fine with the idea of making some of them non-tradeable (especially rares like hats etc.), maybe also with special color.
I would also agree to leave some quest items to the players as I expect them to be some among many in Evol, and there will be way more diversity when it comes to weapons, so I suppose so It wont be an unfair advantage for old players.
MONEY
In order to create a working economy in EVOL I see almost no chance to import TMW wealth to EVOL. That can only be compensated by something else, like Items that are useful and maybe hard-to-get in EVOL. Anyway, remember money can't be eaten so when the worst comes to the worst it doesn't matter if you die rich or poor.
SKILLS, MAGIC
The skills and spells cannot be ported 1:1 to Hercules afaik, so I would really propose to remove that and make the player get it new. If he wants he can get it from scratch (and have the whole new game experience, which will be a great one!), and if he wants to use his 99 Char with imported experience he can do that too and quickly get the skills and spells he wants. Also there will be much more diversity when it comes to skills, the usage will be different etc.etc.
MAGIC EXP, JOB POINTS, BOSS POINTS
I suppose all that ^ will be different so there may be no point to keep it. Maybe compensate if community insists. See Skills, Magic.
COMMUNITY
If we all stay together the most important thing in the game (at least for me) will be 100% ported - the nice community you all are part of!
In general, I like the proposal from Pawneeboy:
So never mind, keep up the good work!I think the items that should be kept is the current quest items (IE Bandit quest, Cindy, LTQ, Illia etc), as for money maybe give all players a starting amount of money (all the same amount ofc), and let 1 character from every account keep its level and stats. (and to keep out players with multiple account check IP's)
- Mick