I've logged in a few times today, and after 8 hours or so, my armysize barely moved. I even popped a free cache. It said about 1.3B in army, but I only got less than 300m. I popped another one, it actually gave me -200m or so after I reloaded the game. Anyone having similar issues? I tried on two different computers, same result.

EDIT: Might be some synchronization issues, I just got knocked down to 1.3B (-300m) total without spending any armies

Edited 4/11/2022 12:56:55

Do you have Auto-Conquer on?

That could have a whole range of reasons, but I would assume if it were syncing issues, you should see the territories as unclaimed that you thought you had conquered. As far as I know, syncing issues can't cause a situation where the army stats are wrong but the conquered territories are just fine. Either you conquered them and earned the armies, or both these changes haven't synced and haven't happened yet.

But: If you claim to know how many armies the caches were, shouldn't you immediately see the changes in the available armies at the same time you click the territory or activate the cache? Why compare one point of time with the next time you look into the game? Without further information, my best guess would be AQ, too.

It was indeed AQ. I could swear I didn't have it on, but apparently I did. Thanks a lot.

I've been wrecked by several Auto-Adv's so many times!

AQ - same as what you've said, what using FCs, buying mercs, drafting, etc. Nothing is more disappointing than dropping a few hundred billion money on mercs, then seeing that your army count has gone down (b/c AQ just captured a bunch of stuff you didn't have enough for before, and then more). And it wasn't stuff you were buying the mercs in order to capture.

Auto-Upgrade anything - Speaks for itself. I've got from ~40T money to 3T money in 0.1 secs due to a mistake with AUAC.

Auto-Draft is really the only safe Auto-Adv. The absolute worst it can do is cause you to draft without having your Draft Boost artifact equipped (if you even bother to use it, I stopped bothering a long time ago, too much effort).

I suppose if you have AQ enabled, Auto-Draft could get you armies and push you over your AQ % trigger and cause unwanted territories to be captured. But I'd say this is an AQ issue, not Auto-Draft.