I made a route from Villore to Dodixie and I don't see a problem.

~ One obvious tactic you might not have considered: Get somebody else to fly it with a Courier package. This is probably the best honestly, as you can put a high value on the cargo to protect against potential loss. If they lose it, it becomes their loss, rather than yours. Monetarily speaking anyway.

As a side note, perhaps red/blue/black frog should have a secondary spin-off business similar to agony unleashed or OUCH, think of it as pvp training for freighter pilots. It would teach basics like how to not be a complete dumbass and load freighters full of plex, perhaps in an advanced class they could cover how to not publicly admit on the forums that you got your freighter full of plex popped while attempting to solicit CCP for changes to game mechanics ultimately embarrasing yourself.

Where is the post where you explain that you aren't looking for tactics that involve scouting or tanking more, or flying with no value cargo, as has been suggested? I'm assuming that you already kn those exist and just chose not to mention them.

~ Freighters can't be fit, so that is a limitation on tactics. All that is left is having someone web you to align faster, as mentioned, and not carrying high value cargo.

~ One obvious tactic you might not have considered: Get somebody else to fly it with a Courier package. This is probably the best honestly, as you can put a high value on the cargo to protect against potential loss. If they lose it, it becomes their loss, rather than yours. Monetarily speaking anyway.

That basically ensures that they will do what they can to protect it, and they do make a business of that. Also, it is relatively inexpensive to contract a courier. This will always work in your favor, provided you don't absolutely have to have that cargo somewhere at a given time for some other purpose where ISK covering its loss is just not enough, and I doubt that's likely.

Think of Freighter ganking as an incentive to use Courier contracts; that is what it really boils down to. Also, it means you don't need, or have to train a Freighter Alt or fly one yourself. That's a pretty good bonus right there.

Probably because autopilot hasn't changed one bit.

And yet you feel the need to take things out of context. It's a pattern I see with the forums here. It's called spin by the way.

Is there anyone out there that still thinks that suicide ganking in high sec is NOT a cardinal sin that should be removed somehow simply because some of us don't like it?

To put it bluntly, stop acting like things like suicides/ganks/barge killing is such a mean and cowardly tactic that it shouldn't be allowed. Yes, it sucks to get popped in high sec and loose a freighter, but haven't we all had bad loses from one thing or another? There are already ways to avoid these things.

Sorry if I sound too "f-you" , had a long day and long days make me agitated to hell and back sometimes. Take it for what it's worth. Use a scout, avoid haulling too much stuff, don't follow the same route continuessly or move the same times of day, and above all else, just follow your gut instinct (cliched, I know, but you'ld be supprised how many times I've narrowly escaped ganks and suicides just because something didn't quite feel right at the time).

As someone who has a freighter pilot main, I think freighters need a slight buff, nothing serious though. However there are a million different ways to avoid being ganked, one of which is webbing which is the closest thing to invulnerable as it gets. Also, stop with the AFKing. Most of the kills are on AFK pilots who sit there letting people scan them for ages and letting corps get gank squads together. If you are ATK then you give gankers less time to think about if they want to choose YOU as the target. The last thing is the amount you haul. You can safely haul more than 1bil around the hotspots but when you get crazy and haul around 50+ plex you somewhat deserve it.

But to laugh at the general co-ordination of high sec players is like laughing at Incursion runner co-ordination, or wh squads doing PvE.

No, it's completely different. These are the same highsec players that outnumber us by at least 10 to 1, but complain about the CSM being almost entirely dominated by nullsec reps.

- 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.

I'd like to see you back that up.

What. People have already noted that popping an obvious web alt isn't such a big deal, especially when the people using it are likely to be ~profitably ganked~ (otherwise they'd just autopilot).

double-wrapping is your friend

Simple solution...just shoot someone in a starter ship at each gate. Concord will show up, pop the alt, and then sit there for a few hours. This will then make CONCORD's assistance time instant (while the ships linger at the location of the incident).

Last I checked, this was frowned upon by CCP, but hell, if you yell some meaningful comment in local before you shoot someone, you can possibally claim you were RP'ing (kinda like how certain people get away with harrassing other players) and therefore CONCORD showing up was just part of your emerision.

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?

Simple solution...just shoot someone in a starter ship at each gate. Concord will show up, pop the alt, and then sit there for a few hours. This will then make CONCORD's assistance time instant (while the ships linger at the location of the incident).

Last I checked, this was frowned upon by CCP, but hell, if you yell some meaningful comment in local before you shoot someone, you can possibally claim you were RP'ing (kinda like how certain people get away with harrassing other players) and therefore CONCORD showing up was just part of your emerision.

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=15258262

No, it's completely different. These are the same highsec players that outnumber us by at least 10 to 1, but complain about the CSM being almost entirely dominated by nullsec reps.