I think it's been especially bad since SE announced that the next wave of housing will remove the personal lockout - that's when I started noticing a certain someone's name showing up in the market that I have only been competing with one or two competitors. Now everyone wants gil to buy a house, which creates an ideal market environment for RMTs and their bots. And it'll only get worse if there is Ishgardian housing. I am better off due to my gil hoarding since the start of ShB, but as the first wave of housing openings is next week - the procrastinators are getting desperate - desperate enough to buy RMT perhaps, which prods the bots to increase their activity.