OP has a good idea, but I'd be satisfied if it was simply a shooting range VR room for one person to access from their personal quarters.

Sure a full on practice arena with people would be better-but if it's easier to just make a space for me to test out weapons and fits before investing heavily in them, I'd be happy with that.

It would help a lot to be able to nail down things pre-combat/fit restocking for things like:
-how grenades/mass drivers arc
-gauge splash damage effective radius
-get a feel for charge timers on forge/snipers
-test fire rates and accuracy differences on burst/single fire/full auto variations
-ranged targets showing the range of effect for your guns
etc

CmdrWang confirmed a test server for Dust.
hell yes

Give up Mavado.
If they where interested they would have said you.

VR, though a great idea that I support 100%, will not see the light simply because it will takes time make/implement it, and more time to test it.
At this point in the developed cycle it is just too late for that.

I agree with a training area. When I played BF 2142 competitively we spent 80% of our time in game going over strategy and practicing amongst ourselves in our own unranked (meaning no rewards) server.

While I like the idea I think an entirely free mode goes against the EVE mindset. Small scale practice for one individual merc to learn to fly his new aircraft or whatever is great. But if you're going to have an area for large scale corp practices it should come at a cost.

Obviously make all training no risk, you don't deplete suits, mods, vehicles etc and gain no SP or ISK reward. However for large scale practices force a Dust corp that has no EVE corp affiliation to pay some ISK, lore explanation could be you're paying a use fee to a Npc corp. Then any Dust corp with affiliations to a 0.0 EVE corp that controls its own planets could either pay a similar use fee or use their planets for free to train based on whatever arrangement they come too.

I think this achieves the goal while still keeping with the EVE mindset.

talk about a old thread..... maybe we'll be able to go to SiSi once we get on tranquility to test things out there like EVE has

I stopped bumping my ideas long ago but you Mavado are relentless.
VR Training Room should come true simply to honor your effort.

Also guys I am not discouraging him, not seriously.
In my firs post here I suggested, among he other things, a VR training but then I found out others did it already so I was as happy; "I am not alone" I thought.
Now I am sad because in so much time CPC never, ever, even come out here saying "Sorry Mavado, it won't happen"

There will be PvE so....there will be your VR Training Room. You probably will have option of Solo/Corp missions.

Really hope we get something like this, if you want teams to develop real strategies and practice as a team this is a must.