If instead of botting to increase your combat skills why not make a certain sector where you are told to go and kill some players of equal or higher level. In that sector you could perhaps even kill your team mates. To prevent people kill each other for bounty you could put a limit on how many times you get a bonus for killing a particular player or perhaps a time limit, so you can kill the same player over and over but get only bonusses once every 15 minutes or so.

This is just a brainfart so...

HT

This is how that could work:

You have an 'uber training simulation mission'.
So you accept it and you are moved to an other station in the 'simulation sector', you are homed into that station and you can buy every gadget that you have ever seen for 0 c. (so if you have seen a secret gadget, you can buy it; but if you have never seen it yet; you can't).

But.. that system doesn't have any wormholes. You can run around in that system killing everything and anything you want without losing standing. Any playerkill you make in that system doesn't count, but it will add XP. (so people don't think you are some kind of 1337 ubergriefer if they /charinfo you).

You can return to the normal situation at any time by aborting the mission.

Not quite what I had in mind but it is an idea.

HT