Take out the bit about not losing what you use, we had these, they were called corp battles. You put up a contract for a certain amount and another corp agreed and you fought for the pot. They were usually fun, we liked them, we have requested they be put back in.

I'm all for it except for the not costing anything idea. There should be *no* battle situation wherein one does not risk loss, imo, unless these are meant to take place on a holodeck or simulator, which would be fine for internal training, but problematic for Corp v Corp battles.

Bad retort is bad.

We need private matches so players can just break off from the rest of the community with no consequence of loss or way to touch them? We don't need to enable people to be able to go play their own game, this is New Eden and if you want to practice it should come with a price and losing something during a practice session is perfectly fine.

Simulation battles
No gear lost, no ISK won, no meaning except the option of betting on fights.
Add a spectator mode, or at least the option to record (and share) fights in the simulator.

Also, as has been requested since the removal, BRING BACK CORP BATTLES.

As long as it's mainly used for training purposes I have no problem with this. No SP and no ISK earned. Just practice.

An exception should be made for player-run corps that want to practice ahead of time for any future attack or defense. Eve Online players do this all the time in the Singularity Test server. Though they do consume items, those items aren't valuable by any means since everything in the test server is 100 ISK (even a Titan is 100 ISK in that server) and wallets are fat in there. In the case of Dust, you can have the lore mention this as some kind of VR training exercise.