(12-24-2014, 09:56 PM)Naunet Wrote: I'm unconvinced this is really any meaningful thing. Coding seasons into the game world would take a great deal of effort. I don't know of any MMO that does such, and it would certainly be strange to presume that all of those fictional worlds were deliberately built with a completely vertical axis.FFXI actually does have seasons -- it's what dictates the likelihood of certain weather conditions to spawn in certain areas (snow in Batallia, for example, only occurs during winter, heatwaves in Valkrum are more common in summer, double rain in the Jungles is the go-to weather in spring, etc). There's just no coding for actual terrain changes.
Anyways.
As Blue pointed out, the map in the first post is from XI. The graphic that includes the stars is fixed and never changes -- Odin is always due north, Titan is always due south, and as long as the sky is clear you'll see all the stars.
XIV specifically, I -thought- I once observed the star graphics wandering slowly over the course of the night (was trying to get a specific screenshot out in Costa), but I could be mistaken. Even if I'm not, it's probably likely that it's the same wandering path every night.
