(Australian playing on Series X, Eastern US Server)
It’s funny I see this post moments after I just read that apparently player numbers are down, which yes I’ve noticed to, especially the last week. I turned off the AI traffic about a week ago also in order to help prevent the likelihood of crashes and hopefully gain a little more performance, when I did that it’s basically turned this into a ghost town, only getting worse by the day I reckon.
Sea Traffic hasn’t been a thing at all for the little over a month since I’ve been here as far as I’ve noticed. I can’t fully speak for that.
An Example:-
I decided it’d be a great idea to fly about New York City (Local Time) on the morning of 9/11 expecting many to be thinking the same, so that’s what I did. I loaded in as the sun rose, beautiful day, great conditions. I took off, did a few laps around Manhattan and only noticed 1 other player I estimated to be in the far North East of Connecticut. I then proceeded to go all the way down to Montauk, the very end of Long Island and back to circle Manhattan once more before landing at Newark Intl. That 1 player had long disappeared before I got back to the city. There was no one else at all during that whole time and I was looking hard.
One of the most busiest areas in America on an Eastern US Server during reasonable time period and there’s no one. Sure makes you really think about what the f… is going on, it definitely feels lonely here there’s no doubt about that.