Sea Traffic?

[SpaceWeevil]

I'd like to ask your experiences of FS2024 sea traffic - is it just me flying over watery deserts? With Object & Terrain LOD at 100 and sea traffic at Ultra I've yet to see a single moving boat or ship leaving a wake. Turning on the labels shows a variety of ships apparently present but at best they pop in when overflown at low altitude and - just as quickly - pop out again. It's the same story whether flying in real time or selecting a date. Upping the Object / Terrain LOD seems to make no difference, and anyway my system won't support levels much over 100. A lot of my flying is around the Solent / Isle of Wight area and along the coast both ways, and the lack of sea traffic is a real immersion killer.

 

[tiger1962]

I use freeware GAIST V6.1 from Flightsim.to: https://flightsim.to/file/81663/global-ai-ship-traffic-v6 along with Mamudesign Marinas which is payware but well worth it: https://mamudesign.eu/marinas/

 

[SpaceWeevil]

Cheers Tiger, you answered the question I forgot to ask!

 

[LouP]

Another sell feature of 2024 soon to be forgotten. :-(

LouP

 

[Navy Chief]

I look forward to the GAIST ships having hard decks to land helos on. Currently they don't, but I know that is one of the things the developer is planning, eventually.

 

[SpaceWeevil]

Thanks for the heads up - still not many ships but a few is a whole heap better than none, and they move, and they leave wakes!