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Originally Posted by ericthered
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I think that's overstated: that effectively makes it so they're standing on a 5 degree slope, and sailors have been dealing with pitching decks for a long time.
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Try pouring hot coffee or going to the bathroom with that "5 degree slope" theory and you might not like the result. :)
More seriously, you don't do either while undergoing combat maneuvering but the lower you set your acceleration the longer the periods you have to use it for effective travel. If you had only minutes of multi-G burns for Hohman transfer orbit insertion you just strap everyone in for the duration.
When the duration is hours or even days you really don't want to have your artificial gravity and acceleration going in different directions. Probably the main reason you have artifical gravity is that zero-G plumbing doesn't work very well. You'll want to design for long durations of every day life ass your default condition. You can get hrough minutes of acceleration and space battles with strapping in and keeping a stiff upper lip but hours and days of ordinary living should be as ordinary as you can manage.
As for Dodging you don't do that with the main drive for big ships anyway. You can't turn the hsip fast enough to bring main propulsion intot eh line you want. You have to use relatively large attitude thrusters that are scattered all over your hull.