Heartwarming / EVE Online

• The night of September 11, 2012, Sean Smith, known in game as Vile Rat, a senior diplomat for Goonswarm, was killed in an attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Over the course of the following days, thousands of players paid tribute to Vile Rat with in game "candlelight" vigils, littering the Jita star with cans labeled in tribute, deploying bubbles to spell "RIP VILE RAT," and countless renamings of ships and stations.
  • An example of one of the cyno vigils, large enough to show up on the universe map◊.
  • You could see it more heartwarming in the light that Goonswarms' members isn't itself known being considerate at all to real life deaths and have harassed people, encouraging them to kill themselves, yet very few bothered to do the same for them.
  • Of course, they have mellowed quite a bit over the last few years, and anyone attempting that kind of behavior these days tends to be dealt with rather harshly, as is evidenced by the story further down this page.
  • The practice of lighting Cynos for real-life deceased players in general.
• When Curatores Veritatis Alliance was disbanded by a hacker, fleets from all over came to their home region to protect it, even their sworn enemies, Ushra'Khan. On the forums, people from UK hoped that CCP would reverse the disbanding (which they did) because, although they want to win and see CVA gone, they want to do it fairly: by beating the snot out of them.
• The Plex for Good charity events that CCP throws for raising funds to relief efforts are incredible successes. In the 2011 Japan tsunami fundraiser players donated 2549 PLEX to the cause earning about 38 thousand US Dollars for CCP to donate to relief efforts. to put this in perspective, 2549 PLEX's adds up to 212 years of paid game time. Even this effort would be trumped by the 2013 charity event for the Philippines which raised in total $190,890 or the equivalent of 1060 years of paid game time (a total of 12,726 PLEX).
• In EVE Online in general, you will sometimes find a strange brand of corporations that frequent Low-Sec space. While they will blow someone who is new to the game out of the sky if they wander into their territory, some groups will actually give money and advice to the new players. It is moments like this where there are little hard feelings between the destroyer and the destroyed. In general, any Corp in High-Sec that is set up for the expressed purpose of helping new players get on their feet in the world of EVE.
• NULLSEC GETS BEHIND A HUMANITARIAN OPERATION, involving scumbag of a player who enslaves EVE Online newbies (not in the in-game sense, either) and the major PvP alliances in conflict with each other that decided to drop everything to go after the man's head and help the victims. Keep in mind that this is the video game where scamming and griefing between players is considered the norm.