Temporary servers are the only way to gain players, however changes must be done to improve the gaming experience and you cannot do such changes only on the temporary server, otherwise you cannot merge. Things like drop rate and respawn time can be different, but other things must be the same or else the merge is problematic or not possible.
We go back to the same issues that players of this server don't want any changes that make their work "less valuable" even if that work is 10 years old.
PS: The novice channel was removed long time ago