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This would provide additional information on what's possible in MULTIPLAYER. The SDK support for multiplayer doesn't really exist at the moment. I think that omission won't be fully understood until we *do* have comprehensive support for multiplayer and people realise what innovations that will bring to the platform. The entire cloud-managed structure of MSFS make it perfect for multiplayer but the single-player legacy from FSX is delaying that evolution. Simply showing the 6D positions of other players is valuable and looks great, but it's maybe 5% of what you'd expect in a proper multiplayer game. The EA Battlefield series has an incredibly basic real-time API for communicating generalised 'events' all of which ASSUME you are going to want to know the player name and location (for MSFS that would be Xbox name, TAIL NUMBER, and lat/lng/alt). E.g. even a player sending a "chat" is an event which contains the chat message and the name and location of the player. Or a player "kill" event contains the name and locations of both players and the weapon used. Other basic events are player "join" and player "leave". These 'events' are separate from the basic movement of the players so it's relatively efficient. With that simple API it's relatively simple to add great multiplayer functionality, e.g. in MSFS we could announce a player crossing a finish line, or tasks involving multiple players could communicate success/failure (e.g. dogfight, but there are many other possibilities). FWIW the pre-existing 'chat' mechanism (you can send chat messages to just your team, or all the multiplayers in your 'instance') turned out to be a viable 'real-time messaging' hook sufficient to communicate these events. If we had a chat system in MSFS with an API, we'd probably have already hijacked that to implement the stuff I'm describing here, but hopefully Microsoft/Asobo are aware of what multiplayer support should be capable of and are planning it more strategically.