Its weird its saying the fields are required. Even though the fields are not required the production environment!!
You've told it the fields are mandatory, so, to be consistent, it needs them filled in.
Check that the field configuration for the old and new projects are consistent with what you need - they do sound like they need to be different.
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Sounds like the field configuration it being used for the old project. Perhaps someone updated the default field configuration and it is used by both.
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