Ships & Modules

dont autopilot, train mechanics 5

Double wrapping is never a good idea. Current freighter gank fleets on seeing a double wrapped container will assume it is double wrapped because it is expensive. Combine that with the fact that if it drops the entire container drops, not just a portion of its contents. A double wrapped container is a gamble, but a gamble most gankers will take.

Do not auto pilot, warp directly to the gate and jump. Gankers have set ups that can insta lock you, and will often bump you out of alignment to prevent you from warping. If they decide you are a target they will still get you. But auto piloting will make you a much easier target.

Do not carry more than 1 billion isk worth of cargo. Freighters are meant to haul bulk low value cargo, not full loads of high value items. Some freighter ganking doctrines have shown it profitable to gank a freighter with as little as 800M worth of cargo, but they will always target the most valuable target available which is often hauling 2-4 billion worth of cargo.

If you have to haul high value cargo use some friends or alts to help. Scout gates looking for positioned tackle or bumper ships, and use the scouts to web you freighter into a fast warp. 3 webs on a freighter will give it near insta warp. If you are gone before they can scan you, you may get through.

Rename your ship. Often gankers rely on the overview to quickly assess targets. John Doe's Charon has a much higher chance of getting targeted than John Doe's Ibis, or Megathron. Any name other than the default will do. They will see a freighter on d-scan, but if they can not match that ship to a player name in local or a target on the overview it could give you the extra couple seconds you need to escape.

Most freighter ganks take place in bottleneck or 0.5 systems. The targets are normally either ships on autopilot that are easy to target, or ships with way to much value in their cargo hold making them worth the effort. If you follow these suggestions, even just the first two, your chances of survival will go way up. Nothing you do will guarantee your safety, no matter what you do, if someone wants you dead, you will die. But taking steps to ensure that the next freighter behind you is a more appealing target will drastically increase your chances of survival.

In highsec, literally the only thing stopping people from killing you is that they don't feel like it. The only exceptions are the cloaky haulers which are harder (but no impossible) to catch.

One way to have your stuff moved for you is to use courier contracts. It costs more but if you put proper collateral on it then you transfer the risk of getting ganked to the person doing the moving. If you're fitting a dread then I would split up the items in couriers of max 10k m3 so people can pick them up with cloaky haulers since (I assume) the destination will be in low-sec.

The only other way to get it there with relative safety and ease would be to use a jump freighter if you have one.

How would the gankers ever know it was double wrapped? It is not like when an item is double wrapped it puts a giant flashy banner on it that says "double wrapped". The courier package doesn't show up on a scan, AFAIK unless recently changed when scanned all it shows is the cargo containers used. If you have everything you are carrying jammed into one container, it shows up as a single container when scanned. Not many gankers I would think are going to sacrifice an entire gank squad on the mystery box behind freighter 2. That would mean anytime you carry an empty general freight container you'd be gank fodder. If you use multiple containers it may look fishy because if they were empty they'd be stacked and they won't appear stacked on scan.

have an alt or buddy about to web you, long range multiple webs preferred.