Yeah - this seems really odd after all these months/years of people posting that the moon/stars representation in SH3 seemed pretty reasonable/accurate. As you can see from my experience testing above, I also noted some odd directional issue - I basically headed due west from St. Nazaire, so was at essentially the same lattitude during the test run, yet the moon rose first at 105 degrees (ESE), but then it next rose a week later at 73 degrees (ENE), and then 5 days later at 90 degrees (E).
I didn't check the sunrises so I don't know where it was coming up, and I haven't done the research to figure out where the moon should rise at that lattitude or time of year, but it does seem odd that there would be that much variation in the moon rise location at the same lattitude over such a short period of time.
I hope they manage to get this working right in SH4, or somebody figures out if it can be fixed for SH3 (sounds probably hardcoded to me, but I really have no idea).
[edit] - (NOTE - I just remembered that I actually sailed westward at high speed for that first week, where the moon went from 105 to 73, and then eastward at slower speed back toward St. Nazaire for the next 5 days, where it went from 73 to 90, so maybe that explains why the moonrise location was fluctuating that way - not sure. Even so, that wouldn't explain the "reset" issue or what you say you are seeing with the sun rises, so something odd is still going on here. - I wonder if anybody still has a vanilla install so they could see if this is happening in stock SH3 and not just GWX - I can't imagine why/how GWX would have caused this but who knows)
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