As said above, the engine currently can only handle a certain amount of live traffic.
If I’m not wrong it’s 50 aircraft within a 200 nm radius.
That’s correct. However if you don’t count traffic on the ground (handled separately) then 50 in the air is actually quite a lot
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no you can have over 100 ai traffic and live traffic, 50 is just multiplayer, the problem with perfomance is sometimes some planes that departure from same airport than the player still show even when they are over 500 miles away i think max distance should be around 100 miles but they should show all real traffic not just 50%
That highly depends on the area, in my opinion. US East Coast alone, look how many large aerodromes are within a 200 nm radius from, let’s say KIAD. Of course, the traffic has to be split upon all these dromes since other players on other airports also want to have some traffic in the air around them.
If I’m not wrong, a radius of 200 nm equals around 125k square (n)miles so 50 aircraft is very, very low.
Also worth noting that the 50 limit include multiplayers too - so you might have no real traffic if there are a lot of other players around. I assume it’s a limit to manage the resource strain
I find the Live AI far too buggy!
Thankfully I am a religious VATSIM flyer!
It depends where you fly. Some places are heaving while other areas are quiet.