Small world gravity

[gchuck]

Looking for input here.

Small world, size 3, B class starport.

Are the 'manned' areas of the Starport, gravitationally enhanced for 'comfort' of the workers, like quarters and work areas?

No indigenous fauna, except sea creatures.

 

[GypsyComet]

The best answer is "Sure, if the staff wants to use it."

Once fusion power is available, the only real cost is installation.

 

[coliver988]

That's pretty much how I've always done it. Warehousing won't use grav plates except for areas for cargo that requires it. Makes moving things around a bit easier (although massive items are hard to stop even in low grav!)

 

[kilemall]

Optional for working adults and retirees. Mandatory for proper development of 1-G children.

 

[Condottiere]

If it's not corporate headquarters, it may be very much tied to shareholder value and cost benefit.

I can't recall if Fire Fusion Steel has a cost associated with it, since MongoVerse the only thing mentioned is fifty kilobux per tonne of gravitated spaceship, compared to twenty five kilobux for non gravitated tonne, adjusted by hull configuration and other multipliers.

 

[Grav_Moped]

That's pretty much how I've always done it. Warehousing won't use grav plates except for areas for cargo that requires it. Makes moving things around a bit easier (although massive items are hard to stop even in low grav!)

Harder to stop in low grav than standard, unless you're using some kind of reactionless-thruster materials-handling equipment. Less weight means less traction for the "forklift"...

 

[BRJN]

If it's not corporate headquarters, it may be very much tied to shareholder value and cost benefit.

After a few famous lawsuits over death / injury of employees where corporate HQ came off looking like uncaring cheapskates, insurance companies and Legal Departments begin to advise that grav plate -equipped facilities are cheaper than lawsuits.

Which facilities? Low gravity usually also means low atmosphere. Where do you not want big heavy stuff getting loose, crashing into the ceiling or walls, and leaking all the air out of the room? The starport concourse for people who just want to catch a connecting flight should be the same grav as aboard-ship standards. Employee living accommodations buildings (apartments not houses).

In general, places where people hang out would be more important to place artificial gravity than places where machinery or freight hang out.
Of course, as to details, Your Campaign Can Vary.

 

[Condottiere]

Since I;ve been trying to calculate low cost space fares and manoeuvre drives, I'd say OSHA mandated artificial gravitated environments for humans would be a minimum of seventy percent Terran norm for humans.