EVE New Citizens Q&A

Forget Tayra, get transport ships...and warp cloaked or use the DST.

No, T2 cloak is required for the trick and I can't think of a single situation where a shield booster is preferred to buffer, something like this will allow you to haul 4 frigs and might get you back to the gate if you screw-up the trick and get caught:

[Badger, 4Frigs]
Expanded Cargohold II
Expanded Cargohold II
Expanded Cargohold II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II

Experimental 10MN Microwarpdrive I
Medium Shield Extender II
Medium Shield Extender II
Medium Shield Extender II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II

Improved Cloaking Device II
[empty high slot]

Medium Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer I
Medium Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer I
Medium Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer I

But as J mentioned, blockade runner is preferred, and well worth pausing your main's queue to train for the additional time required.

You won't have the grid required for the MWD, badger will also get you there a lot faster, especially if you fit it with the HVO rigs.

Yes, I believe a well-fit cargo Badger can fit some ~17k m3 and the MWD+cloak. I do not believe I have ever been killed using the MWD+cloak trick; however, you will still have to keep an eye for smartbombing gatecamps which is why buffers in the mid slots help.

Also consider the Gallante line of Industrials.

The Nereus can achieve a good tank while still doing MWD/cloak with warp stabs and the ability to deploy EWAR drones. The miasma/epithal/kyros ships can carry more of their respective cargos (with less tank) but still manage to fit a MWD claok.

On the shield buffer tank someone mentioned earlier - shield buffer mods have a penalty (+sigrad) that makes getting a target lock upon your ship faster. This is a *bad thing* in lowsec. Use shield buffer modules on hauling ships only after extreme thought.

If you screw up the MWD Cloak trick and get caught I would definitely prefer the buffer and hope they are incompetent enough to be able to burn back to the gate. If BCs are being used they will most likely be setup for near insta locking. A standard cruiser with max skills and without any sensor boosting only takes two ticks to lock a badger without any shield extenders, any significant boost to it's scan resolution will drop that down to a tick so adding the buffer doesn't really change anything.

The buffer is also nice to have in case you encounter a well setup smart bomb camp. It is a rare occasion but there have certainly been times I have seen camps that can easily kill an un-tanked hauler.

Since we are talking about low sec hauling, it should also be mentioned that bookmarks should be setup before hauling with a fast frigate or interceptor. An insta undock BM and a Zero station BM are essential to increasing your survivability.

I run stuff into lowsec quite a lot. I'd train up to both T2 indies and do it eating a plex for the extra train time.

The problem with the T1 ships is you can pick one of: capacity, durability, agility, stabs or maybe cloakiness if you can figure out the fit.

But with the T2's I have the blockade runner for moving smaller cargo amounts(13k m3 and under) very reliably when I only need to move smaller amounts of high value material in. And I have 60k m3 of fleet hanger in the other t2 hauler even before I dig into the normal cargo space it has. Plus it has durability and 2 points of stability built in. I can add more to that with my lows, drop a MWD/Cloak in the mid and STILL haul 65k m3 or so.

If you have 100k m3 of product to move in you're looking at 10-ish trips if you'd don't cargo expand a t1 hauler into a slow boat pinata. You can do that in 2 runs with a Occator, but fit to slip through trouble and still have room left over in the hanger for more stuff. The fewer runs will keep your loses down just as much as the extra features it has.