I don't remember of FSX/P3D did this, but boats will stop moving if you're in front of them.

Edited August 25, 20205 yr by Tuskin38

The original plan apparently was to get live sea traffic into the sim, similar to the air traffic, via AIS.

13 minutes ago, Der Zeitgeist said:

 

The funny thing about that shot was that I didn't even try landing next to that yacht. I just set my plane down in the water because I was on the phone for a while, and let the sim run with my engine off. Then that boat drove up to me during my phonecall and just sat there close to my plane for half an hour. When I got off the phone, I just turned the Icon around to get a better shot. 😄

So what you are telling us is that you phoned your yacht captain to come pick you up?

Hopefully the creator of Global Ship Traffic AI, Henrik Nielsen can bring his beautiful ship add on to the upcoming MSFS 2020.

On a second thought, it would be awesome to have LIVE AI ship traffic just like we have live AI air traffic. I beileve that's possible because there are online websites where you can track ships out at sea.

4 minutes ago, Der Zeitgeist said:

The original plan apparently was to get live sea traffic into the sim, similar to the air traffic, via AIS.

I think that was said to be a possible future plan, or something the dev wanted.

1 hour ago, Flying Fisherman said:

So what you are telling us is that you phoned your yacht captain to come pick you up?

I swear, that's exactly what happened! 😄

1 hour ago, captain420 said:

Hopefully the creator of Global Ship Traffic AI, Henrik Nielsen can bring his beautiful ship add on to the upcoming MSFS 2020.

On a second thought, it would be awesome to have LIVE AI ship traffic just like we have live AI air traffic. I beileve that's possible because there are online websites where you can track ships out at sea.

That would be awesome. As someone already said, this will definite come, given MS/Asobo's ambition to simulate the whole living earth. What a wonder time and future we're living in as simmers.  

7 hours ago, Agrajag said:

4. The flights I've had have all been over entirely calm, flat seas. No water crests. No waves of any sort. 

I landed in the Gulf of Mexico in the A5 last night. Tropical storm. And of course the winds were all wrong, and there was no storm-related turbulence, but the waves were large. They towered over my little plane. Unfortunately they had absolutely no impact on the plane. They just kinda ghosted through my cockpit. So, they're apparently visual only, at least for now.

 

 

running traffic all at 100 and I definitely remember seeing more cars and ships in FSX at max settings, so yea that's a little annoying given I'm sure this engine could handle more

I saw a cruise ship going in circles on the Mississippi River near Plaquemine Louisiana.

2 hours ago, Der Zeitgeist said:

That was just off Monaco. The entire Côte d'Azur has a lot of boat traffic.

The funny thing about that shot was that I didn't even try landing next to that yacht. I just set my plane down in the water because I was on the phone for a while, and let the sim run with my engine off. Then that boat drove up to me during my phonecall and just sat there close to my plane for half an hour. When I got off the phone, I just turned the Icon around to get a better shot. 😄

LOL

 

Now that's what I'd call a "Living Breathing" world!

4 hours ago, Pevenhull said:

This isn't a Yachting sim !

How long will it be, I wonder before someone develops pilotable ships for MSFS?

I just don't want the dev team to turn into Aces where they got totally lost at the end. The biggest thing we all wanted was improved performance and their answer to that, I'll never forget, was to crow about how they added realistic migratory seasons and trails for the elephants of the African plains..... Ugh.

Ok I thought I was just crazy.  I will try cranking them to 100 I don't need a flotilla but a few boats in harbor would be kinda cool.  I think I saw one freighter my whole time but I am at whatever the default high settings were.

7 hours ago, Agrajag said:

I demand realistic yacht schedules!

When I was doing a lot of sailing in Vehicle Simulator in the Super Yacht Athena (google the yacht, it's quite impressive) I followed the progress of the actual yacht online.  

There is so much boat traffic that trying to replicate it in MSFS would be basically impossible.  But it would be impressive to see certain famous super yachts (Maltese Falcon anyone?) in their real life locations.

I'd be interested in a ship you could sail yourself in MSFS.  When I saw the harbor in that first video my first thought was, "We can use this."

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