Turning Commerce on its head: Commerce Restocking Theory

This theory is made up of several key points, which come together for a very interesting... conclusion.

• Each item's cost at a trading post changes at a constant rate based on the amount of stock following a restock.
• All trading posts are restocked at the same time every 5~6 minutes.
• After every restock, the total number of non-limited items between all the items will equal a specific number, say 10 million.
• The amount each individual item restocks is some constant % of the total deficit.

As an example, let's say in one cycle the total number of available items was reduced by 10,000. If baby potions have a restock of 20%, then at the next restock, their stock will increase by 2000.

The "next step" from this theory is very simple: If all the "cheap" items are bought out (the ones that have inherently high stock), the "expensive" items (the ones with inherently low stock) will suddenly have much more stock. More stock means lower prices which means higher profits. Much higher profits.

For the record, this is no longer just a theory. If you do this:

• Trash all the Baby Potions (Tir Chonaill) and Heat Crystals (Tailteann) by buying them and then immediately cancelling.

Then you get the following benefits for days if not weeks:

• Increased EXP gained per trade (~50% more for many items).
• Greatly increased gold/ducats per trade (more than double the normal amount in most cases).
• Gain merchant rating significantly faster.

Optionally, trash Berry Granola (Emain Macha) and Cobh Seaweed (Cobh) as well for an increased effect.

This does come at the cost of several hours of time and over a million ducats to trash everything. I recommend doing this with a group of people.