I have installed GAIST v7.1 in MSFS 2024, but I am not seeing any ships. I have Online/Traffic Type set to "AI Offline", and Sea Traffic set to "Ultra". The "gaist-ultra-V7_1" folder is in my Community2024 folder.

With AI Offline you get little to no traffic, with AI Online you get tons of it. But sadly also lakes full of huge yachts you would never see there in RL.

Is it the same with that Global Shipping addon?

19 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

Is it the same with that Global Shipping addon?

Curious about that as well. I have it saved on my wish list at Contrail. 

I’ve got mine set to online and not seeing any either….part of my transition to 2024 troubleshooting list!

57 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

Is it the same with that Global Shipping addon?

nope. using this with AI offline mode and can see their ships clearly and btw. the look quite nice during night

I went with Global Shipping in the end and it is totally independent of the sim ai traffic settings. 

I also went with Global Shipping because I dont want the drawbacks of AI Online Ship Traffic. Global Shipping has massively less ships (around 90) versus GAIST (more than 1000 if I am not wrong), but at least they are visible using AI Offline 😉

5 minutes ago, Dazzlercee23 said:

I went with Global Shipping in the end and it is totally independent of the sim ai traffic settings. 

The OP was a saying he has this installed and is not seeing anything. What settings in MS2024 do you have set to see them?

Just now, AnkH said:

I also went with Global Shipping because I dont want the drawbacks of AI Online Ship Traffic. Global Shipping has massively less ships (around 90) versus GAIST (more than 1000 if I am not wrong), but at least they are visible using AI Offline 😉

New to MS2024 as well, what are the drawbacks?

Yeah there's no way to see gaist and not see stupid default AI yachts everywhere 

I may also just buy the global shipping.  They look pretty good, have wakes, have night lights and some have landable helipads.

I hope that KA791 (sorry, I forgot his real name) can work out how to get the GAIST ships to display properly in "AI Offline" mode, because I really enjoyed that package in MSFS 2020. I also appreciate all of the effort and dedication that the GAIST team have put into that addon over the past few years.

Do the global packages include the smaller location specific ones by Seafront or are they additional ones to add more detail? For e.g they offer a Canary Islands package.   

44 minutes ago, B777ER said:

New to MS2024 as well, what are the drawbacks?

You cant have AI online ship traffic without default yachts all around lakes e.g. and of course you have comparable matching issues as for AI plane traffic. And with AI offline ship traffic, you get close to no ships. 

11 minutes ago, ianb2469 said:

Do the global packages include the smaller location specific ones by Seafront or are they additional ones to add more detail? For e.g they offer a Canary Islands package.   

No, global shipping covers just the major shipping lanes.