Crimson Harvest 2024 Confirmed To Launch On October 3rd

Today CCP announced the Crimson Harvest, EVE Online's longest running seasonal event, will once again run for a full month. The event begins next week on a Thursday, 3 October, and ends on 5 November. While the modern CCP may shy away from the event's beginnings, I always go back to watch the original Scope video introducing the event.

While available in every area of space, the choicest areas to engage with Crimson Harvest sites will be Derelik and Blood Raider-occupied Delve. Perhaps the next major war in that area should bear the name Omar's Blessing instead of a Goonswarm-inspired name.

While no patch notes are yet available, I did find some good information on the special event website. The basic overview hasn't changed much over the years.

• Pick your side in the bloody conflict between the Blood Raider Convenant and the Order of Tetrimon.
  
  
• Look for horrific combat and hacking sites throughout highsec, lowsec, nullsec, and wormhole systems, as well as Pochven.
  
  
• Combat sites will appear as anomalies in the probe scanner.
  
  
• Hacking sites will appear as cosmic signatures that require scanning down using a probe launcher and scanner probes.
  
  
• Scavenge the remains of your wrecked rivals for improved loot drops.

Something new to the event are components for the SKINR system will drop. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if SKINR items were handed out to visitors to CCP's studio in Reykjavik.

The season of slaughter brings budding SKINdustrialists a cornucopia of design elements to bring their most twisted creations to life, including the Brutal Splatter pattern, Steel Violet, Ritual Gourd Satin, Savant Carmine Satin, Anointed Dead pattern, and much more. Log in every day, complete brutal challenges, and loot the wrecks of your victims to uncover each component.

And of course, CCP will provide streamers in the EVE Partners program with Twitch drops.

Oh, and I almost forgot about the daily login rewards. The dev blog didn't go into great detail, but the event site is showing Omega (subcription accounts) can receive:

• Astero Deathglow Remnant SKIN
• Avalanche Deathglow Remnant SKIN
• Harvest Anti-Disruptor Booster II
• Crimson Harvest Fireworks Crate
• 26,500 EverMarks
• 650,000 Skill Points.

At this time the information about the rewards for points timeline is not available.

I can remember a time when players thought the Crimson Harvest was a dumb idea and no one would ever take to the idea of a developer driven event. Nine years later the war between the Blood Raider Covenant and the Order of Tetrimon continues on. Sometimes EVE players really do adapt and accept new ideas if the ideas are sound in the first place.