I think ramps would be better for moving gear between decks (if you don't have a lift). Stairs and ladders are annoying when you've got to tote heavy equipment around. (Now, the fancy-dancy TL-15 "I gotta grav pallet - in your face!" travellers might be fine in any situation, but even maneuvering through a manual hatch or iris with a grav pallet would be annoying if it fit at all)

Gear I imagine moving around like this:

Portable welder

Portable power supply and heavy duty cabling

Portable autodoc

Any sort of toolkit

Standby generator

Power cell

Missile!

Back up portable computer capable of taking over ship control

Science gear

Medical gear

Grav stretcher (or conventional) to move an injured person safely

Bots

Portable Laser or Plasma Cutter w power supply

Substantial (Old TV to Chest Sized) ship's spares

This is where I see ramps between levels as handy. And with AG, you could even make it not feel like you were rolling down hill so any wheeled dollies or caddies would not have the 'run away!' on the downslope and 'ugh, gotta push' on the upslope - because there wouldn't be an up or downslope perceived (though the eye and brain would know)

TomB

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:20 PM David Jaques-Watson <xxxxxx@pcug.org.au> wrote:

Dear Folks –

Kaladorn wrote:
>One thing I find interesting in traveller deckplans (yeah, tangent): I see ladders and lifts.
>I've NEVER seen anyone use a simple ramp to run between levels like the Andromeda does here and there.

I’ve seen the Subsidised Liner deckplans with stairs.
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