August, Autoland, AI?

[htchngs]

Just a thought…

If we’ve got planes which can land themselves - surely we’re not far away from AI in Solo mode?

I know people prefer having “real” live traffic, but if there’s nobody in your preferred region, couldn’t we get some AI traffic?

[anon67910181]

I touched up on it a while ago:

@philippe

There is absolutely no point in having AI now that we have Live. AI planes will never be as good as having real pilots flying with you. Also it would be a huge performance bottleneck, especially on mobile.

We rather improve the Live experience so it can be smoother and use less bandwidth than adding any type of AI.

We often start implementing features and then realize it is not ready for prime time or we find a better long term strategy.

What happened to AI planes and formation flying?

In 2012, you teased some solo formation flying with some AI planes. Is that something that you could implement in the future? [image]

[Boeing707]

AI would be nice but it would suck up even more battery and it would make live much less appealing.