Sooo about that moon...

Well if things like the Doman Enclave are any indication, it wouldn't be impossible for them to simply make it so that only those who have progressed far enough in the MSQ could see such changes, especially if it's only limited to one zone. That said, I have not been to Mor Dhona in a while so I can't verify any changes until I swing back that way.

I feel like people maybe just aren't really familiar with how the (in-game) moon looks normally, or how its brightness changes over the course of the night. It's a lot brighter when it's right overhead - and you're unlikely to see it unless you turn the camera upwards to look at the sky.

It dims a lot as it moves downwards, then fades almost completely - by the time it sets it's almost completely invisible. This is nothing new - I noticed it a long time ago and found it disappointing - it doesn't look anything like the real moon which remains bright.

Also I found an old screenshot of the full moon over Limsa from October 2017 - and it still has a darker patch in the centre.


Maybe it's darker over Mor Dhona than elsewhere - I haven't actually checked it from there. Only from other places. But do compare it to other locations and observe it over time.

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Originally Posted by Hysell

I doubt they would ever do anything of any major substance to the physical appearance of the older maps in the game. If you are standing in mor dhona you could still be in the ARR storyline or you could be in the HW storyline or completely caught up to date with the SB storyline. They aren't going to implement new story content that somehow physically changes the look of something on an old content map because it would make no sense lore wise depending on what part of the story a player is in. Its one reason I feel like nothing will ever happen to any of the city states because they wouldn't change the look of the maps with new story content when there are players who have not reached that point yet. Unless they are going to cause a calamity and redo everything over again....which I wouldn't mind lol

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Easy. They only make the changes to people who have completed 4.4 story and are waiting for 4.5. Same as how Idyllshire, Rhalgr's Reach, Mor Dhona, and Doman Enclave, and Beast Tribe strongholds change as your progress.

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Originally Posted by Jonnycbad

The last calamity used a combination of FF4:TAY and FF7 and FF9 tropes. FF4:TAY had the True Moon being a lunar base for a high tech civilization and FF7 had meteor dropping on the planet to destroy it. Meanwhile Bahamut being a raging berserker dragon that requires another summon to stop it is from FF9 where Bahamut doesn't converse or attempt to communicate, only destroys.

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And Dalamud having a direct connection to the Crystal Tower echos the moons connection to the Crystal Pillar inside Lunatic Pandora, and it all coming crashing down over SilverTEAR is again an allusion to the convergence of Lunatic Pandora over Tears Point.
So in addition to all that, FF8 is in there too.

IDK if they will reference the Crystal Tower again. Crystal Tower wasn't mentioned in 1.0 I believe, I think it was only retconned into existence in 2.0. Moreover they can't reference it in the story because they have to assume not every player has ran the Syrcus Tower raid series, since its optional. Actually I could be wrong, because Krile mentions that the Island of Val (now Eureka) was named Eureka after an arms storage facility located beneath the Crystal Tower, but idk if that is mentioned if you've yet to complete that series.

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Originally Posted by Hysell

I doubt they would ever do anything of any major substance to the physical appearance of the older maps in the game. If you are standing in mor dhona you could still be in the ARR storyline or you could be in the HW storyline or completely caught up to date with the SB storyline. They aren't going to implement new story content that somehow physically changes the look of something on an old content map because it would make no sense lore wise depending on what part of the story a player is in. Its one reason I feel like nothing will ever happen to any of the city states because they wouldn't change the look of the maps with new story content when there are players who have not reached that point yet. Unless they are going to cause a calamity and redo everything over again....which I wouldn't mind lol

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That's true for big changes in the maps, but not for small changes and especially changes to the look of something that is out of the player's reach. I mean, we have the Beast Tribe quests, that change the appearance of certain areas based on how the player has progressed. How much of Alexander appears in Dravania depends on how much you have progressed in the raid, and is different from other players. And then there's the case of Prima Vista in Kugane for the Ivalice raids, which would be the equivalent of changing the moon, because it's just something that you see in the distance and can't interact with.

I second the idea that the moon in XIV just has its graphical weird moments - I remember the first time I saw the "new" moon, which was just a big black regular moon in the sky. I thought something was up, but then I just found out that's the way it is.

They could be doing something - they've certainly done things before. But my money's on this just being that people aren't used to looking at the moon, and because it's ambiguous, they're seeing things they want to see to support some (admittedly) cool theories.

If we get anything it will probably be in 4.5 like last expansion with Papylemo's moon.

Mor Dhona it's hard to get a good picture of the moon... Damn clouds and Gloom. Specially Gloom.

A few other plot relevant places that come to mind don't really show anything special about the moon...

The places I checked were Rhalgar's Reach, Royal Menagerie, Doman Enclave and Yanxia.

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Originally Posted by SenorPatty

When you're still going to counseling because the moon in Majora's Mask still traumatizes you up until today :p

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You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?