Ships & Modules

Nothing beats the Miasmos' 63.000m³ Ore Bay, except a Freighter (which is also a T1 hull, sooo.. Yeah.)

You see, CCP wanted to do something about industrial (hauler) vessels. The facts were not in their favor:

Two Amarr hulls
Two Caldari hulls
Three Minmatar hulls and
Five Gallente hulls.

So what do you do without aggravating players (who tend to like/prefer certain hulls) by ditching perfectly unique assets?
You specialize.

All races got two distinct specializations (cargo + speed / cargo + agility). The Amarr and Caldari have been dealt with, ok, but what about the third Minmatar hull and the myriad of Gallente Iteron Mk.X-Y-Zs' left?

Hence the Ammo Bay for the Hoarder (i am guessing "Minmatar go through massive amounts of projectiles anyway"..), Mineral hold for the Kryos, Planetary Comodities Bay for the Epithal (also known as the proverbial final nail in Primae's coffin) and the Ore bay for Miasmos.

Dst or an Orca I suppose.

But what is wrong with using a Miasmos ?

From a game/roleplay point of view it's weird having to use your enemy's ships. The different factions all have their own covert ops ships, stealth bombers, freighters etc, why not ore or mineral transporters? It's not a BIG deal, just something that struck me as odd.

The militia is a state independent entity composed of capsuleers who just happen to agree with a particular faction enough to join them in battle, rather than a state funded navy, so it isn't odd to fly different racial ships even from a roleplay perspective because, essentially, they are guns-for-hire (paid in loyalty points).

In the T1 Industrial line, the Miasmos wins for ore hauling. Orcas and Freighters can carry more and are both T1 hulls, but are much more expensive, take longer to train for, and far less nimble.

Also, please, for the love of whatever you find good and holy, do not fill your Miasmos to the brim with compressed ore. It's a tragically expensive lossmail waiting to happen.

It'd be nice if Caldari and Amarr got their own specialty haulers. From a lore standpoint, maybe give Cal one with a special "equipment bay" for moving ship mods and rigs so those uber capitalists can stuff the markets, and the Amarr get one with a special "ship bay" for moving packaged ships because they need a more efficient way to move their armada around.

Anyway, to answer the question, the Gallente line of specialty haulers are the kings of moving raw goods in a fast way. There's just no reason not to use them for their intended purpose. A roleplay justification could be as simple as using the enemies technology against them.

If moving ore/minerals is something you'll be doing long term, training into a DST should be on your to-do list.

If you are concerned about the roleplay aspect of it that much, you might want to consider a slightly different method. Anchor a small POS and use a compression array. Ore compression does amazing reduction to the size, thus allowing you to haul ridiculous amounts of ore in a standard hauler, or better yet a cloaky blockade runner (at better speed too).
Of course this method may not work as well if you change systems often, or perhaps other issues are in the way, but it's an option.

*edit* I realize that a blockade runner is not a "T1" ship, however, depending on how much you are willing to risk, you can still use the compression array technique to make more use of your standard T1 hauling ship cargo capacity.

Crane alone worth training caldari industrial skill to 5. But I am glad I am gallente exactly for this role playing reason ;) Got all gallente industrial except nereus. Cause wreathe is the best industrial for MWD/cloak travel untill you get your first blockade runner. And would love to be able to use Crane (over 5 m3 with a little bit over 3 sec align time and 20 kEHP tank), but I will stick with viator. Train caldari indy skills only to get Crane is waste of time, viator has a little bit better agility (under 3 second) and better cargo, then a prowler.

So yes - compress ore and use Bestover :) It hase over 42 k m3 and much better agility , then iteron, alsmost same agility as Tayra, but tayra can not carry even 40 k m3. So you can put 14 Giant secure containers into Bestover, which will result in 55+ k m3 with better agility, then Miasmos have. You will get sick in micromanagemnt of those 14 cargo containers, but even raw 42 k M3 is worth training IMHO