I touched on the subject on another thread a while ago, but I’ll gladly re-iterate the key points:
- Since AS is (by design) a strategic/tactical simulation and not an operational one, changing the traffic rights over night would be something that would be very hard to deal with for the affected players. Therefore, we tend to avoid such short-term, high-impact changes in existing game worlds. Our stance on this might change with future versions of AS, when the sim is more capable in handling operational changes automatically. But that’s firmly in the future.
- One could argue that we could adjust the traffic rights in future game worlds at least. But that’s where my main argument from the other thread applies: It’s hard to chase such stuff. The situation could change at any time. With some countries relaxing sanctions and others tightening them all the time. So while I could imagine future game worlds to come with a flight ban between Russia and Ukraine, I don’t see us adding all the other sanctions anytime soon.