Hi there MrWhippy, Yeah I'am Aus and the friends i have from the US that i winged up with prior to full release, we had no problems. The moment full release came out we either could wing up but not see one another or we couldn't wing up and still not see one another anyway.
As far as known hot spots go im aware the starting area and surrounding systems are busy and have had no luck barley see anyone mabey one If im lucky, but it's the same outside of there eg. Sothis, Orang, Lusonda, Kaushpoos ect. Read the traffic reports and they say thousands of cmdr's flying in and out but don't see any of them. NAT is open and always has been, so wouldn't think thats the problem.
Would any of you guys know if this is a common enough problem that it will be fixed in a future update?
Cheers