Traffic and animals

[CANZUK]

I played only in career mode and I still have not seen a ship, plane or animal. Does live traffic works in career mode or it just work in free flight mode? Also, in free flight, if you fly in the past, let's say you fly last summer, are you going to see the traffic at that time or the traffic that exist now. In other word, can I fly over the Titanic on April 13, 1912?

[Defcon888]

live traffic is every time i start msfs set to off and i've to switch it back on in options. There's a extra button to switch it on for career mode and yes it's working. If it's all traffic, i didn't try to find out. Animals are also in game. till now i saw only a few. a herd in the alps and two times almost on runway in australia. About the Titanic question, i don't think that. the life traffic is using actual live data of ships sending signals via transponder, ships in 1912 didn't do that.

[Twelvefield]

Yes, every known vehicle is in the database, so if you go back in time you'll see all of that. Go back 1,000,000 years, and you'll find Fred Flintstone driving his stone car. You can follow Amelia Earhart ( she should have made that left turn at Albequerque). And not only can you watch the Titanic sink, you can also follow the progress of the iceberg. Use the blimp, since that hovers. Anyways, that's why the game is so large. 100-200 Mb of flight sim data, and two terabytes of vehicular history.

[Eva]

I have it on good authority that because of this game, they have finally solved the mystery of exactly why the Hindenburg blew up. Apparently some kid was flying a drone he bought at $$$$ mart a little too close. :P

[WildDogsGaming]

I have to turn on live traffic in options every time I open up MSFS. It is really !@$!@#$!@ annoying. But I do it. I have done it from the main menu. If you do it during the flight, you will have to do it every time. When you do it at the main menu, it saves for each flight that session.

[CANZUK]

Thanks, I will turn on traffic in option. Did not know I had to do that. Fun question, if I schedule to fly today a flight taking place tomorrow, will I fly in the forecasted weather?

[testmonkeyuk]

Originally posted by flying yoshi:

Thanks, I will turn on traffic in option. Did not know I had to do that. Fun question, if I schedule to fly today a flight taking place tomorrow, will I fly in the forecasted weather?

Absolutely not.
You can fly with live traffic / weather. If you are in Free Flight and you move the time slider back you can fly with traffic / weather that was 'recorded' for that time of day in the last 24hrs. Traffic / weather data is not 'as was' beyond the last 24hrs or as forecast in the future for weather.
Closest you'll get to 'as forecast' is for the AI Traffic where using the offline option for a future date should generate traffic for that time / date based on expected schedules built from previous historical data. This is a static file though so it will always be the same for a given time / date of the year regardless unless a newer version of the data is published at some point in the future.

[sebsN]

My traffic is set to on, but I have never seen a ship or plane yet.......sometimes I can see the names of the ships (only in free flight mode), but the ships are invisible...

[Mightylink]

I've only ever seen planes parked at airports in career mode, nothing flying or taxiing.

[Eva]

I have seen both ships and animals. I don't recall seeing air traffic in career mode.

[sebsN]

Originally posted by Eva:

I have seen both ships and animals. I don't recall seeing air traffic in career mode.

I remember seeing cows on a field, but no traffic.

When you were able to see ships, what was your Traffic Setting? Realtime or AI offline?

[Eva]

My traffic was set AI offline. I distinctly remember seeing ships as I came into Nice for the gold VIP mission.

Ships and Fauna are both settings under graphics. Ships I had at Medium. Fauna I keep at low.

I had turned air traffic showing in career off in the online settings. I have now turned that to on. We shall see if that makes a difference or not.