I have been struggling with tactics to neutralize freighter ganking in high sec but unfortunately, I can't envision any.
Most of the gankers are already insta-targets now in high sec, and no one has been able to mount a decent defense.
And I don't see any changes to that fact with the new game mechanics.
In fact, it will be worse.

Is there anyone out there that thinks they have tactics that will work in 2 weeks?

What high sec needs is Citizens On Patrol to deal with these gankers and killing the freighter they use to scoop the loot. Like what has already been said, stealing from a wreck flags the freighter making him a legal target to kill.

You know you can also roll fat freighters with a T3 boosting alt, which would raise EHP to such a significant degree that it might break most gank attempts, right?

Can anyone open EFT and compare frighter EHP, at full level 5 skills, with and without the following: 5% shield/armor/hull hardwirings, a fully-skilled, mindlinked Legion booster with the armor resist link and the shield resist link, and maybe a slave set? If no one does it, I'll do it by hand, but I'm a bit busy atm.

Faulting a freighter for carrying to much is like faulting someone who is carrying a briefcase full of money in an area with tons of police ready at any moment.

Cops should be able to insta pod a gankers head.

Providence - 194k
+ Legion and 5% hardwires - 243k
+ Slaves - 287k

Faulting a freighter for carrying to much is like faulting someone who is carrying a briefcase full of money in an area with tons of police ready at any moment.

Cops should be able to insta pod a gankers head.

Providence - 194k
+ Legion and 5% hardwires - 243k
+ Slaves - 287k

If you've taken all the precautions you can, and still get ganked, then you should congratulate the gankers on a job well done.

An escorted freighter has a vulnerability window of 10 seconds or less.

Webbing tip: Overheat. This gives webs 13 km range (more for faction of course). They will never burn-out as they are only active for one cycle.

I also noticed this is the third thread you have made about the same thing because the other 2 got locked.

I think the other 2 got locked because of comments on the thread from people other than the OP. Thats what ISD's do; lock threads that have too many naughty comments in them. Thats their JOB.

double-wrapping is your friend

- Avoid the systems where a lot of freighter ganks happen. Prevention is better than having to solve a problem.

- Gank them before they can gank you.

- A special mercenary taskforce that patrols the tradelanes and guards freighters (at a cost) could become reality when Retribution comes out, but can already work nicely now. (GCC = free-for-all)

- Get a squad of T1/T2 logistics ships that repair the freighter, extending the time required to gank it, which I hope for your sake is enough time for Concord to respond to the gankers.

- All of the above combined pretty much guarantee you won't lose your freighter. It's still possible, but if a ganker group sees a freighter being escorted by a blob of logistics and combat ships, ready to gank the gankers, they know they're in trouble.

- Alternatively: complain and whine on GD and FI forums. (most effective)

"Nullify"? As in, entirely?

Hisec hauling: Risk vs. Reward done right

1. Don't haul Plex's EVER. There is a simple game mechanic that allows you to move plexs with ZERO risk. If you are too lazy to research it than you deserve to lose them.

2. Crystal and Slave implants are your friend.

3. A fleet booster is also your friend.

4. Double wrapping helps, as will numerous little valueless items mixed in with visible cargo.

5. For small high value BPO's etc, a cloaky transport ship that aligns really fast will limit your vulnerability time to almost zero.

6. Forget that autopilot even exists! It will just get you killed.

Skip weekend hauling and peak hours also. I mean who wants to go to Jita on the weekend. Just the spam overload is enough to keep me away.

- They look for people with single accounts and no real option to multi box a web alt. My guess, the reason CCp are ignoring it.

Dat tinfoil

Dat narrow minded innocence.

- no skill or implant will help. If they catch you, it's all over.

Please tell me how a gank squad knows how many accounts any given pilot has.
Please tell me how CCP is "ignoring a problem" rather than saying "working as intended".

So doubling your EHP won't help when the way gankers work it to do almost exactly enough damage to kill you to minimize their losses?

HOW DID THEY STEAL THE DEATHRAY FROM CONCORD?!?!?!?!?!

@ Destiny, didn't sound like whining to me, sounded like he just wanted some helpful suggestions on how to deal with it. Sounds like you are the one whining that yet another individual has come to the forums for assistance and they must clearly be looking to CCP to change the system. Not because they just wanted realistic suggestions on what to do, eg take small support fleet etc

But thank you for your incredibly helpful reply which has obviously assisted GD with reaching its dailly quota of douchebag