Thanks, Phaserlight. By the way, do you still play regularly? Maybe we can meet in-game sometime.

I am on quite frequently; I like to keep a low profile, unless I am running a sweep of greyspace (which hasn't happened recently).

By the way, where are you usually in the game? Maybe you can teach me some things about combat; I'm pretty bad.

Who likes or dislikes my idea? I want to hear everyone's thoughts on this. I want to start this thread again.

I think it's a cool idea. But how about this: you must have at least a lite sub to use this feature. It only needs to be one sector, just put different bots in each sector.
A1 would be the Orun Collectors, A2 Kannick Collectors, A3 the next hardest, etc. This way you can just choose the sector that most suits your ability. Higher sectors could have mixes of bots, or even constant static skirmishes. Basically everything you need to practice, all in one system with one station. Hell throw in a couple Deneb like sectors where Itani/Serco duke it out. Maybe a racetube or two? Make the gauntlet available to take as many times a day as you want.

I like it. This would for sure help newer pilots who like the game enough to put down $1.99 a month.

Thanks, Barktooth. I like your expansion on my idea. Since this was intented for the Offline Training Simulator (in my orginal idea), it will be fairly less complicated to implement your expansion ideas of my idea. We already have the racing gates in the Offline Training Simulator, so it's just a matter of implementing the Collector bots and the Deneb-style skirmishes between the militaries of the Itani and Serco. We should pitch this idea to the PCC!!

Your expansion on my idea would also require the additon of the ability to "jump" between sectors and systems in the Offline Training Simulator as well.

+1