As we know, custom battles allow 4 regions to be selected for the creator (South Asia, Russia, Europe and USA…and any of those named): 5 options to choose. Make a 6th where creators can choose to play in local area network (single player) or offline (client), just like how flight training/tutorial works. This would means no other player can join the game, unless its connected directly by local area network (or just make it single player).
I would really love to see this simple feature because i could properly: (1) fly an interceptor (2) with RF blaster/plasma gun/shrapnel cannon (3) and high rotation, for the first time in my life. Im sure other players like RennieAsh would also love this.
Ok, i get theres some work required to make it happen and other priorities. Just look how practice battle used to be (the domination game where you had a T4 ship with mixed mods and weapons vs T1 bots), its a good example imo.