Anyone have a date for the training mode yet?

And that's my point it shouldn't cost me crystals to have sad testing of things I worked for 

There's now other way to test new tools aka Cobb when I got him 

Why would you spend crystals on Squad Arena? You get 5 free battles a day, and even those aren't optimal for testing because no Omicrons are in effect.

Thank you i figured as much with the amazing communication CG has with the player base....

It costs crystals to test characters in squad area

Reading between the lines, the OP believes ship shards are going as well as arena shards?  This is not the case.  Arena rewards are (in whatever form) moving to Era PvP and the sandbox/training mode is just that; a free mode for practising.  Ship shards are staying as is.

To answer your question, I believe not.  If we get a road ahead...it might map it out.  I think things will start to change with the next Era.

Why's it costing you crystals?