Red Moons! Glitch Or Something More...?

[Claire_Pendragon]

Back during Beta, the moon changed colors over time (i think each game day) to the colors of the "colored stars" aka liek FFXIs weather day. ex; Firesday, windsday, etc.
Now I don't think I've seen the moon change colors at all.

[Griss]

Yea i seem to remember the moon changing colors over time back during testing as well claire.

any way point being the moon its self being red is a rare occurrence but still it happens. I think the reason people are actually taking note of it now is all the focus on the its not a moon, moon.

[Sojiro]

Apocalypse to cleanse the world of its sin?
Heavens nohoho.

Ohh good find if you took those yourself. I would have never noticed that.

[Jennestia]

...and I thought the moons in the sky were just coded as one item. I think I was wrong.

Nope, you can do quite a bit with a skybox if you're creative enough -- Most companies don't pay attention to the tiny details like Square does.

[Gramul]

Nope, you can do quite a bit with a skybox if you're creative enough -- Most companies don't pay attention to the tiny details like Square does.

That's probably why it takes them so long to release anything these days.

Ohh good find if you took those yourself.

Thank you.

[Kyra]

If you look very closely at dalmund on a clear night you can also see tinly sparkles of energy coming from it, like flashes of lightening. Nobody else has posted this so I thought i would point it out, my freind has also seen it.

[Catapult]

When hunters moon was going on, the question about the moon being red in the poster was raised, because a red main moon wasn't normal.

I theorized that it was possibly a full lunar eclipse, as anyone who has seen one in real life knows that it causes the moon to turn a blood-red colour (only red light refracts through the earth's atmosphere enough to make it around the earth and reach the moon).

I'd be keen to look at the in-game calendar next time it's witnessed.

[KiniRyris]

Wow... Very cool, I havnt really looked at the moon. I guess i will have to start. Wonder how much larger it will be for 1.21

[Soukyuu]

So last night I was doing something, and considering the sky was clear I had that "hmm, I wonder" thought. Oh? Interesting.

http://imageshack.us/f/683/ffxiv1326418281.jpg/ <-clicky

If you mean the fact that Dalamud isn't there, it's normal. It has left it's usual orbit and you can sometimes see it in the sky alone, for example:




@OP: can you please post the original size of that one?

[Arcell]

That's no moon.

In all seriousness, it's interesting to see the big moon changing colors but as others have reported it is likely not related to the whole bit with Dalamud currently as it's been happening since beta apparently.