I love how players amassing thousands and thousands of gold is ‘a couple hundred’. It’s not just level and transfer. They can sit at 60, rake in tons of money and then copy over. I don’t see it happening. IF copying/transfer happens at all, it should be a one-time thing when TBC servers first launch. Otherwise it’s two different games with a perpetual shared economy, occasionally adding in vast amounts of gold, tons of gatherable raw materials, etc. from the ether. It’s a recipe for disaster.
Number 2 is silly and won’t happen. The default position won’t be to force players to transfer their characters BACK to a Classic server. It’ll be the other way around. Inherently your character will remain on a capped 60 Classic server. It will take action on the players’ part to move them to a TBC server…if that’s even an option.
I continue to say keeping the games completely separate is the best course of action. Classic servers, TBC servers, and eventually Wrath servers.