Ship scanner that would scan the weapons and tell you if the fight would be easy, noobish, hard or very hard.. Kind of like in Need For Speed Underground online, you can see if your opponant can whoop your ass or if the fight would be even..

disagree, you'll know what he has when he starts firing....

fighting is supposed to be risky... its combat, not dance-in-the-park-holding-hands-bat

Yea, i suppose :)