LIVE ships not showing

Hi all, I am curious if anyone is still experiencing this issue? Thank you.

Yes, I have ships activated, and although set to 100% I never see ships in the oceans.
But i see ships at random positions where they should not be: e.g: big ocean ships in Linz (Austria) in the Danube river - and if that wouldn’t be bad enough, the ships scattered as if a hurricane picked them up and dropped them randomly: ships are 90degree to the river, half in the river banks etc pp.
So ships are still broken in SU4 :man_shrugging:

I rarely fly over water, so don’t know if ships are following trans-oceanic routes. I do regularly see ships ā€œdockedā€ in port and near shorlines.

This was taken today in the harbor at San Diego. I’ve turned on labels for this screenshot:

I don’t see them either, but when I fly at low altitude I can’t see them as soon as I go above 10,000 ft. I don’t see any more ships, and even at night the lights of the ships can’t be seen and they should illuminate in the middle of the sea…

Hello ! Does anybody know if we can see again the ships in SU5 beta 1.7.10.0 ?

As my initial question was dealing with seafront global shipping, and after a test in su5 1.7.10.0, i can confirm that we can see the ships again after last update. :slightly_smiling_face:

After a flight in 1.7.16.0 it seems that i do not see the ships from ā€œglobal vesselsā€ of seafront.

Please report this separately directly to the manufacturer as the Seafront ships are a Third Party. This thread is for the core Microsoft/Asobo shipping traffic only.

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Hello !

Okay ! Sorry about that ! :slightly_smiling_face:

SU5 Beta: I am seeing ships, some are moving others not.

Strait of Dover, 51.072081 1.673667

Are you sure those ships are not from GAIST? I believe only GAIST ships show the ship real name, not the default ones.

I don’t have installed any sea traffic addons so cannot be.

has this been any better on SU5 ?

Screenshot 2026-04-16 132622

we are waiting… hoping they add the trails

there’s been progress in SU5, I posted my new findings in this thread. There seem to be new AI ship models also:

I have a lot of ships showing, but almost none of them moving

I can confirm that behavior, to reproduce:

  1. Spawn in the waters of NYC, somewhere between Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty (as there shouldn’t be much stationary traffic but quite busy waterways).
  2. Watch the movement of the big Staten Island ferries.

Expected behavior: Marine traffic is moving smoothly.

Actual behavior: It looks like interpolation is broken, ships basically teleport between positions approximately each minute. After 10 to 15 minutes some ships may start moving normally, however not all of them and at some point they may go back to teleporting

This covers both, the SU5 release version as well as the SU5.1 Beta.

Same as usual for me.. Shows a few boats here and there but pretty much a non-ā€˜feature’

Maybe its like the beta-OS updates they release with features that only work when they flick the switch on server-side after %NaN% amount of (RND) time has passed ?