Malexa: we are giving you time to grow. Didnt you noticed we are mostly in omegas and hunting corsairs? Our fights (RM/RHA) are much less frequent than in pastness. Those few ocasional fights... mostly events just test your skills and it is only good for you to know how much you've learned.
You must notice too, we are only real chalenge for you and our fights are only way how to improve your skills... those few indies per weak giving you a chance for PVP or trainings in private system dont learn you anything because 99% of indies know nothing about fight and generaly team vs team is a lot different than any 1v1 or even all vs poor nooby indie.
You have big dissadvantage in that lack of PVP encounters since you cant jump into sigma 13 which is allways full of corsairs or outcasts or even better blood dragons. If I can sugest you something, take your forces few times into omega7 when are sairs doing piracy here.
In 4.85 your main enemies will be Liberty capital fleet, I hardly sugest you practice anticap fight with bombers... since I am VHF pilot mainly I feal needing of that and spend most of my time in bomber now (yea I now I sux a lot in that class but becoming better)... you can do the same.