Lavian Brandy has disappeared

Cool - shame blight didn't disappear it earlier - I remember Diso Ma Corn stayed available during the Blight. Easy enough to clear the famine, though it will take a few days if you leave it to clear itself.
 
So I was trying to unlock Didi Vatermann tonight on my engineers grind, and came across a discovery. Lave Station has no Lavian Brandy, effectively roadblocking my grind. I relogged to make sure I wasn't mistaken, and there was still nothing on the commodity market except for "mineral oil." I checked EDDB for Lavian Brandy, and there isn't even a record of it in the commodities list. Does this have something to do with the fact that Lave is now in Famine? If it does, I don't think an intended game mechanic should ever lock content behind a wall, and if it was unintended, I believe this needs to be promptly addressed.
With any rare good, there is a maximum quantity you can get in any given time interval. And that will not reset while you have any of that rare good in your hold. If you have even 1 Lavian Brandy in your hold, you will not see any for sale at the station.

When unlocking an Engineer, unless there are certain system states, it can be several jumps back and forth to fulfill the unlock criteria.

Unless you do it with a friend. Get a friend with collector limpits who also needs the engineer, and you can work together to get the amount you need in double time. Its the fastest method to do this kind of unlock. Then the two of you can buy your quota, transfer to other ship, return, buy the quota, repeat.

You can then get the rares required in the minimum time. And you only then need 1 jump to the Engineer's system.

IF I were you, I would triple-check I dont have any Lavian Brandy, even a single 1 in my hold. Then wait 15 minutes and see if any are at the station again. Instance hopping has seemed to help in the past, whether it does or is just perception I dont know but it can be worth a try.

I have not had any experience with the new "blight" state, could well be one of the effects is that it stops rares from spawning. That would be good information for the community to know if its confirmed. Might be worth posting a main thread let everyone know if you/others confirm it.

CMDR Gavin786
 
Carried few thouthands animal meat from Diso to Lave today, will continue tomorrow and hope it will help.

Wait, you took animal meat to Lave, ANIMAL MEAT? Don't you know they are all vegan, it's lucky the station didn't vaporise you for bring such criminal food into their station ;)
 
If I get a chance today I will bring some food across to help out. Hopefully we can get the Lavian Brandy flowing again soon!

Edit: Also, which minor faction is in control at the moment? I think the controlling faction as well as the BGS states can have an effect on the rare commodities from memory.
 
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Current state is 'civil unrest', and still no brandy. I'm collecting for the Christmas Carriers' Convoy 4, and will return periodically before departure to check the status.
 
Would you mind voting for the ticket in the incident tracker please. It would be nice to know if this is a bug or not. Thank you

 
So what about the other commodities that are missing?
Looking at other systems, it's just Famine being Famine. Somewhere like https://eddb.io/station/market/31912 still has production, though less than 1% of normal, for example.

Lave is Agricultural so most of its production is food. Famine both massively increases demand for food and massively decreases supply of everything, so the tiny remaining supply then gets used up by the internal demand before it reaches the market. Non-Agricultural systems aren't affected in quite the same way - consumption goes up of Food, and production goes down of metals, or machinery, or whatever they produce, but as the two effects aren't of the same commodity they don't remove it from the market entirely.

(But you can see similar effects with goods only sold in particular states without a Famine - Tobacco, for example, may be sold in Boom but not in War)
 
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