I am very new to the whole game so my knowledge isn't up to par so pardon me if I sound stupid.
It depends... Since I have no idea how ships are made and the materials used to craft ships, I can't be aware of the financial impact a random dog fight would have, just for me to practise/have some fun. I hope the balance between ship cost vs reward for winning fights is balanced or else you are going to have either; huge amounts of pointless fights for no reason(low ship cost) or no fights and everyone hiding like cowards because cost is too high.
A place to practice space combat would be great, since most player will likely want to fight. Maybe some sort of station-arena can be made?
For the reasons I said this could be an interesting work around, although, like I said I haven't yet played the game or gained enough knowledge about it to know whether or not this is already a thing.
I hope that all makes sense and that me taking the game too seriously isn't cringe when not having even played it yet.