How often do the markets restock?

[Lucke]

Anyone have any idea how often the markets restock? For example, I'm looking for landmines and I go to a producer and buy up all their stock. How often before they make more?

[Agony_Aunt]

Probably depends on many factors such as their maximum stock, their population, their economy, etc.

Just bounce around diffferent stations.

Why do you need so many landmines? AFAIK this week's CGs are combat based.

[Lucke]

Unlocking Liz Ryder. She needs 200 landmines to unlock her. I just stayed in the same station nearby and every few minutes the market restocked about 10-20 landmines.

[Paranoia]

elitedangerousdatabase will list all stations with the commodity you list. Not all listings will be accurate but it will give you a good idea of where you might be able to find commodities. I recommend only go to stations that list having 1k> or more of whatever commodity you are looking for.

[caaront]

i JUST TOOK THEM HOWEVER MANY AT A TIME, BY THE TIME i GOT BACK THEY WERE RESTOCKED EACH TIME.

Sorry for the caps.

Being busy sure beats sitting somewhere.

[HamakiBCN2]

Originally posted by Lucke:

Unlocking Liz Ryder. She needs 200 landmines to unlock her. I just stayed in the same station nearby and every few minutes the market restocked about 10-20 landmines.

Why the hell are you buying landmines from a station that has only 10 in stock, mate? There's several stations in a 50 ly radius that have thousands of those things in stock. Just search for them in EDDB (remember that landmines are sold only in planetaries, so make sure you check that option)

https://eddb.io/commodity/121

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

what's the fascination with lyz ppl have anyway, is it the seekers?

[Inscydeus]

Originally posted by the smoking mค็็็็็n:

what's the fascination with lyz ppl have anyway, is it the seekers?

You need Liz to unlock Hera Tani, who then unlocks the invitation for Broo tarquin.

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

ahh, ofc

[Hobgoblin]

Yeah same issue here. Damn that Liz Ryder. All the engineers are irritating to unlock. Marco Qwent is about the most useless Engineer, yet, key to unlocking Palin.

I followed INARA's suggestion for places to buy landmines, and all it did was take me to a bunch of places that didn't even have a commodities market, much less landmines. Ackerman Base being the last suggested place I checked out, per, INARA, with no Commodities market. It's not like the service was temporarily disabled, as sometimes might happen with Shipyard, Outfitting and Black Market services...nope! These places just didn't have Commodities services all together (when checking in station description). Anyway...enough ranting on that.
I'm sat here in Tauernonese, a system very close to Liz's system, Eurybia, and they had about 24, off the bat, but I had to wait a few minutes, log out, log back in and maybe there'd be 6 more. It's still quicker than following a guide that tells you to land at a bunch of sites that don't even sell ****.

Best thing I can suggest is work on unlocking Liz when you are ready to stop playing for the day. Park it at a station that has landmines, whether they are in stock, or not, buy what you can, then log out and come back later to see if more are in stock.