EVE General Discussion

You are absolutely correct. This is also true for any lock that protects valuable property, or policemen who defend neighborhoods.

Against a determined criminal, no deterrent is 100%.

The question is, why are you looking for a defense that is a 100%? Do you think that EVE owes a freighter pilot a 100% effective defense?

Good point. Prevention is a 100%.

Not anti-tanking your ship.
When planning a route look to see if there is any systems with large numbers of deaths/pods and possibly route away from them or in the case of large, valuable holds you can either fly them off peak or just fly another day, leave a few ships along a trade route so that if you can't get your primary cargo through you can haul other, smaller cargos or do other things like mining, shooting red crosses, exploring, etc.
Bring friends.
Bring logi.
Bring ewar.
Bring combat ships.
Don't use autopilot on trade routes
Shop around for a channel that has intel, or, make one.
Split your load and use smaller ships.
Don't AFK, especially while using autopilot.
If you are truly worried about your cargo, and it isn't leaving High sec any time soon, use red frog to ship it.
Always insure your hull so that even if you get ganked, you get paid out.
Pay attention to third party sites like minerbumping and themittani.
Put an alt in CODEdot. At the very least create a negative standings list with known CODEdot affliates and agents as even if there are non CODEdot members in their fleets there are usually a few familiar faces in the crowd to alert you that there may be a gang around.
Pay for a permit and follow the rules.
Use wormhole space to move cargo.
Move out of high sec or move to less populous areas of high sec and route accordingly.

The most important thing to stress is never fly without intel. Sites like minerbumping will advertise in advance where they will be heavy in their operational scope. The in-game star map can tell you where the large deaths are occurring, being CONCORDOKKEN'D shows up as well so if you are seeing things like 10 deaths and 1 pod death then probably freighter or exhumer ganking. An intel channel will keep you up to date with any sightings so you know whether to bring big loads through or dock up and try again later and do something else.

Flying with logi and ewar and combat ships will ruin their day. This is an MMO, they are flying with friends so the correct counter is to also fly with friends. Honestly with the early warnings you get you should be able to pay for merc corps to have an all you can eat buffet of pvp action on advertised weekends, most of code is -5 or below so they don't even need to dec them and even if they aren't there are enough kill rights floating about that you could just nab them up and go to town on them non-consensually.

There are plenty of ways to defend freighters, or prevent cargo related decompression syndrome. You can even turn the tables on them but nobody is interested because freighters and their ilk are a bunch of solo divas who baulk at either having friendlies fly with them (seriously, grab some third party voice chat, fly A to B and talk, share pictures, play music, whatever) or paying someone to clear out the route ahead or haul their cargo for them or merc for them. Yet at the same time when they get caught with their skirts all a flutter in the wind they cry and cry about how unfair it is.

Excellent example. Do you know why one shouldn't walk home alone from a bar at night?

Who ditches their friends at the bar? That is the lowest of the low. Also, you don't have to say the "I totally defended myself" bit, you just say you straight up ran, that dude was like huge/had friends/other lies or truths. You can have a defensive action without having to add a caveat.

Quite often the known criminal was simply watched/avoided by the townspeople cause no one, not even law enforcement, wanted to be the next victim. When the known criminal did commit another crime, that's when the townspeople went crying to law enforcement and the criminal was either shot or left town and another crime was added to their wanted poster.

(Above paragraph rewritten to be EvE relevant)
Quite often the ganker is simply ignored by the carebears cause they're AFK. When the ganker commits another gank, that's when the carebear starts crying on forums, the ganker is concorded, and another petition is filed cause the carebear didn't want to be shot.

It's pretty common for us to gank an Orca in an ice belt & have no one notice for several minutes, where someone then declares "Gankers about to strike!" like some sort of carebear hero.

It's probably also worth mentioning that I've been flying freighters on various accounts for nearly 6 years & have never lost one to a gank or otherwise.

I've done it using a Corp Daredevil, MWD and dual fit webs. (90% web x 2)

While most of this thread defines EVE to a letter perfect example (the game of don't do stuff) this is the one option you do when moving a freighter.

I object to the fruity bump mechanic, never tried to understand it and never saw it as valid but for the time being, CCP do see it as such. This is the work around.

Link leads to a cheesy 7 second Yoda fail clip for those to lazy to click it.

The draw back of course is, the Daredevil web worked so your catchy reply fails to hit the mark.