Sooo about that moon...

[Corue]

It's nothing.

[Vahlnir]

The only thing I've noticed is the typical phasing of the moon which can result in parts of it growing darker and differences in brightness. Nothing out of the ordinary from what I can tell.

[Kahnom]

Oh.. you people ain’t talk about Magnai.
Don’t mind me then.

[Iscah]

(images)

It's nothing.

Interesting - your screenshots don't have the slightly darker centre to the full moon that I can see (including in the older screenshot I mentioned). I wonder if there's something in how different computers or graphics settings handle it? I'm playing on PS4.

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.

My first thought was that you can see the same thing with the real moon to some extent - if it's only partly lit, you can still see the rest of the sphere dimly - though I've since seen it in-game and it's still a lot brighter than it should be.

Though it also occurred to me that what makes the "new moon" really odd is that while they have implemented moon phases, they've completely ignored the changing position of the moon relative to the sun in the sky. Whether full or new, the moon still rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. In reality, only a full moon will do that, as it is opposite the sun and fully lit by it. At any other phase, the moon will be elsewhere in the sky, and might be up during the day, or set halfway through the night.

A new moon is dark because it is visually close to the sun, which is why we're seeing the unlit side - and why we would never see a dark moon high in the sky like that.

[Lunalepsy]

Well, it looks pretty. : )