Hello,

Since Patch 4.3 went live, the marketboard on this server has been taken over be a previously unknown crafter, "Fierce Lala." After doing a cursory investigation of this user, it's quite clear that he is using third party assistance to automatically reprice his items 24/7. Considering he is not originally from this server, nor has any ties to it, it's reasonable that he's doing this for the purpose of RMT.

The main crafter in this situation is "Fierce Lala." He seems to be AFK always, in an apartment in Mist. He owns a free company, however, with multiple alts - these alts are on a different service account, and he seems to cycle through each. Each is logged out on a different summoning bell, will log in briefly, rapidly check the summoning bell to reprice, idle for a few minutes, then log off. When one logs off, the next will log on. The alts are: Atabishi Thebish (Limsa Lower Decks), Das Arcanist (Mist, unconfirmed ward), Floor Yaaaay (Ul'dah). Friendly Roe (Old Gridania), Imbeautiful Nohaters (unconfirmed), Satoshi Nakamot (Limsa Lower Decks.) I have tried multiple time to interact/trade with these users, and they simply ignore before logging off. It's quite clear they're linked - they all wear the same outfit, are all in the same free company, and they all reprice Fierce Lala's items.
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/freecompany/9232379236109620878/member/

There are two more members of Fierce Lala's free company that are Level 1 as opposed to the Level 19 that the retainer-having alts are. Leviabro Bro and Wowoto Woto. It's reasonable to consider that these alts are used for the RMT specifically, but I can't be sure.

Fierce Lala himself is clearly a transfer - his gear is signed by Anomandaris Rake, a crafter from Sargatanas with a suspiciously similar free company structure. I wouldn't be surprised if he's doing the same thing on multiple servers.

I implore you to please investigate this. This is absolutely large scale botting, presumably with RMT as the purpose. Every endgame crafter on this server has been having to deal with this competition for weeks - the sign of a healthy market yes, but not if the person is using external tools to give him an advantage.