Your fleet, even when it goes dark
Skydex has real ships in it. The vessels you see from the air and photograph for your collection are live AIS traffic — actual boats, in their actual positions. You can star the ones you care about and they become your fleet.
The problem with a live feed is that it is only live where someone is looking. A vessel you starred off the coast of one country slips out of range the moment nobody is flying near it, and then it is just gone from the map until it wanders back into view. For a feature called "your fleet", that is not good enough.
A watch that never sleeps
So there is now a second, dedicated connection whose only job is to follow the union of every player's favourite vessels, worldwide, whether or not anyone is online near them. It keeps a current position for each watched ship, records a throttled position history, and notices when a vessel arrives at or leaves a port.
The upshot on the map: open the full-screen map, and your fleet shows up as its own layer. A vessel with a fresh fix is a solid gold marker. A vessel that has gone quiet is drawn dimmer, pinned to the last place we saw it, labelled with how long ago that was — Odessa Star · 3h. Tap it and you get "last seen 3h ago", and the Fly here button drops you above its last-known position instead of doing nothing.
History, not just a dot
Because the watch has been recording, your fleet is not only a set of dots — it is a timeline. In the fleet panel you can see the recent arrivals and departures for the ships you follow: which port a vessel reached, when it got underway again. It is a quiet, ambient sense of what your collection is up to while you are not watching.
What we deliberately do not track
Only commercial vessels are ever watched. Private recreational craft cannot be added to a fleet at all, so their movements are never stored — no history of a natural person's boat exists anywhere in this system. Position history is bounded too: samples age out after thirty days. This is tracking of ships that already broadcast their position publicly, kept for a month, and nothing more.
If you want the product overview rather than the change log, the ship-tracking page has it. And the map that ties your fleet together with spots, cities and your saved places is the one map we wrote about last week.