Hello,

Something weird is going on with (loggia, techthon, manos) processing stones, of all kinds.

1. I had some preorders for several stones. Now they (preorders) are gone (missing from my "buy" list). I cannot tell if I have my silver back or not.

2. I do search for "processing stone". Strangely - zero stock for any kind of stones.

3. Fine, I want to set a new preorder. Choose a stone, set price, click "buy" and nothing happens. Just a message appears "failed to load information from CM, please try again later".

I couldn't find any information on the matter, neither in the patch notes nor reddit/external sources.

Does anyone else have such issues? Can any GM enlighten us about the situation?

Thank you.

They are "removing" the old processing stones from the game, and making 1 unified stone.  most likely PA locked the ability to sell/buy processing stones until that change is made, which is coming this next patch if I understood the Caphe-on part 2 correctly.

I understood it like that too. 

PA unifies processing stones NOT REMOVING them.

Will be one new processing stone with multi function but what functions it will have will depend on what current processing stones you combine with it.

If they have blocked trade in them, it is a very bad decision. But I understand them, most of the players are idiots and PA probably feared the mass sale of these stones and then there would be a cry because the current ones will not disappear and will not be worthless but they will be useful for this new one.

At the end of that J said he would anounce what he was doing with the now "useless" stones at a later date.  You are right they didn't say they would be removing them, but they did say that the stones would be useless.

It's better to ask the question: why this change at all?

If after 6 years they "invented" slots for tools for life skills, they could just add slots for processing stones.

The current stones cannot lose their importance, nor can the new one replace the current ones because many players would feel cheated.

Processing stones are not cheap to produce and to enchant. 

Unfortunately, the facts are that mass processing is a failure. Why? Because with "normal" processing you obtain more finished items. Mass processing it's still rng. Once it will be 200 but once it will be 80. It should work differently. Mass processing should be instant not 60 - 90 sec and each should be as "mass". 

So eg. we can obtain 1-4 finished items. With mass processing we have eg. 40 at once. So every instant processing should give us 40, 80, 60 or 120 finished items. This should work similar to mass cooking. Processing mastery should serve some purpose. The higher the more 4 and less 1. But with "mass" the game draws an average which is lower than standard single processing. How do i know that? Because I used these stones and counted.