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Moderate sized ore hauler?
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Ragnar VonBuliwyf
Macabre Votum
Northern Coalition.
#1 - 2016-03-29 06:46:18 UTC
What ship is worth it for moderate ore hauling? Ideally it should be able to haul around 1 million plaig.

(I'm a complete idiot with ships in EVE which is why this is likely a stupid question.)
Jacob Holland
Weyland-Vulcan Industries
#2 - 2016-03-29 07:21:49 UTC
0.35m3 per unit, 1 million units, 350,000m3 capacity.

You're talking a freighter.
erg cz
Federal Jegerouns
#3 - 2016-03-29 10:20:23 UTC
Shiloh Templeton
Cheyenne HET Co
#4 - 2016-03-29 18:14:21 UTC
Freighter is for serious hauling and is useful for Industrialists, but it's a long train and quite slow.

I think of an Orca for moderate hauling. It's a quicker train, much quicker to travel using the MWD/warp trick, is less expensive than a freighter, and it's very useful for hauling ships.

You can also consider refining or compressing the ore to reduce the cargo space requirement.

Sheeth Athonille
TerraTroopers
Get Off My Lawn
#5 - 2016-03-30 02:16:22 UTC
I'd recommend compressing it, makes it far far smaller. Only thing you have to watch out for then is to not carry too much so you don't become a super gank magnet.

If it's compressed you could easily carry that much in a miasmos.
Bianca Niam
Doomheim
#6 - 2016-03-31 10:04:38 UTC
Sheeth Athonille wrote:
I'd recommend compressing it, makes it far far smaller. Only thing you have to watch out for then is to not carry too much so you don't become a super gank magnet.

If it's compressed you could easily carry that much in a miasmos.

This indeed. Just don't fill up a miasmos with compressed ore, you can easily exceed 200m worth which is *usually* the magic number where it pays off to gank.