Board Thread:LOC General Discussion/@comment-108.35.154.66-20130911165857/@comment-5428123-20140123091723

Whatever the cloners are doing, I suspect they've found ways to hack LOC without the devs knowing about it. Before when the problem first started, the devs managed to patch the game and dish out bans on cloners who were duplicating cards and items, and we did see a period of consistent prices for a while.

Now it seems that the cloners have figured another way to circumvent LOC. Since duplicating potions and cards will result in automatic bans (each card and item has its own unique ID), they may have found a way to artificially create unlimited gems (which aren't technically an item, and therefore contain no unique ID), and are using those gems to then buy as many potions as they want, thereby creating potions which are technically legal. If this is the case, then it would explain why the devs haven't been able to catch them yet.

Since the issue is unique to iOS, I suspect there may be a piece of programming in the iOS app that doesn't exist in the Android app, and which cloners are exploiting. That, or the Android app isn't popular enough to generate interest in hacking it.