Stairway vs Scaffold

[Xuhybrid]

Why does the large stairway take so long to climb up and down when you could put a nice thin scaffold and the dwarves fly up and down so fast... Stairway is straight useless.

[brian7772]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that there can only be 1 dwarf on a scaffold ladder at a time vs 2 on the stairs.

[Xuhybrid]

Originally posted by brian7772:

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that there can only be 1 dwarf on a scaffold ladder at a time vs 2 on the stairs.

That doesn't compensate for it taking twice as long to go up the same distance. Never mind the double width. You're using twice as much space to go half the speed, unless two dwarves happen to be next to each other, in which case it's the same speed? There's no benefit or a straight deficit in any situation.

[Sarynth]

Agree, I never build them anymore.

[Igor]

Well if you want them to look nice you can build an elevator down until you come to the area where you cant build (some scenic cave) then continue with staircases over that area and once you are done do the elevator again. Looks nicer.
But i agree the staircase is useless.

[weregamer]

OMG, that's unfortunate. I had just noticed traffic jams on scaffolds and was thinking that staircases were an obvious upgrade. But yuck.

[dbzvelena]

i use stairs for aesthetics and scaffolding for mining/getting to resources.

[Mick]

I tried these out thinking they'd be an upgrade since they take more space and more intermediate materials to build. It's unfortunate that the better looking infrastructure is functionally worse.