a tram system would be cool, but that would be quite expensive to have and you would need to have many people using it to make it cost effective.
for the USG ishimura, the population in the ship was around a thousand people (1332 according to the wikia) so the tram system was needed to allow, for all of them, a fast and easy access to the living quarter section (with the canteen and galley of the ship) and the medical section . If i got it right, the ishimura's tram car could hold like 30-35 people at max. in addition, the usg ishimura is 1,6 kilometer long making the time gained quite significant as the station seem to be more than 300 meter away from each other.
so yes, tram system would be cool, but we dont have yet a ship big enough to make the time gained significant (our biggest ship availlable seem to be about 100 meter long, if we count with the boarding time ancceleration and decelleration time there would be no big gain on short distance, only direct link between front and rear part of the ship would be effective on ship of that size), so i dont expect it to be in game rapidly.
but i hope we could get some giant ship (probably not as big as the Ishimura but big enough to implement a tram system in it) so tram system would be useful in managing large crew , especially, if the crew member got some need of their own, like eating and sleeping( which are not in game yet, we have galley but character dont use it and the sleeping quarter are just the spawning point for characters at the start of each mission after that they can be turned off as the characters dont need to return to it).
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