Cool things to do with Gravity Plating

[jayem]

I really like that. And since it has to be in between two plates it doesn't work for a drive system and it just gets used for making fake Gravity. Wonderfully simple

It stops the far off effects (and prevents tidal forces near by). I'm not really sure how big they'd have been anyway, possibly comparable to having a moon hanging around (the radius and hence the (effective) mass is a lot less) ?

At that point it's almost like an electromagnet, which obviously doesn't have too many effects at a distance (in fact the E-M does have some at close range, making it useful, while the posited gravity one doesn't).
The problem with that is that it leaves the perpetual motion, so I'd be inclined to copy the E-M a bit more closely, we know that doesn't have any perpetual motion loopholes.
If you leave it slight open as to whether it's truly Gravity (with negative mass) or Electrostatics (with universal attraction), and how you managed to create it. Then I I think you can gish gallop any changes how you want to.

[Grey_Wolf_c]

I really like that. And since it has to be in between two plates it doesn't work for a drive system and it just gets used for making fake Gravity. Wonderfully simple

I'd recommend, too, that you have it be not-quite-perfect. So, say the energy required to make it work is the cube of the distance, and hits a sweetspot at about 1.8 m. So ships have corridors that are just a bit claustrophobic, and tall people complaining about having to stoop, and the captain's cabins being the only ones with proper height because rank hath its privileges and the like. A passing reference to dogs really not liking the effect is also nice, regardless, because it suggests that it's probably bad for us, but still the kind of crap soldiers have to put up with.

Grey Wolf

[Blackhawk748]

I'd recommend, too, that you have it be not-quite-perfect. So, say the energy required to make it work is the cube of the distance, and hits a sweetspot at about 1.8 m. So ships have corridors that are just a bit claustrophobic, and tall people complaining about having to stoop, and the captain's cabins being the only ones with proper height because rank hath its privileges and the like. A passing reference to dogs really not liking the effect is also nice, regardless, because it suggests that it's probably bad for us, but still the kind of crap soldiers have to put up with.

Grey Wolf

Thats nice, and a great idea for the setting. Bonus points for that it's actually fine, dogs just hate how it feels but thats basically impossible to prove so there are people who think it's giving everyone space cancer