the Liberty carrier, and making dockable player ships?

[cobraSting]

A couple ideas:

If the docking ship dies, all ships docked inside also get destroyed, and the players are moved to the base they were docked on B4 they had docked on the player ship. This can be done with a Stack data structure, and you just keep pushing the new base to the stack. The stack resets when the player doks on NPC base, and the bottom of the stack is the last NPC base that the player docked on.

For logging out: the docking ship that logs out stays in space (similar to F1), except only until all players have undocked from it. Once it is empty, it undergoes the F1 procedure. Players cannot dock with the ship during this procedure. Also, if the carrying vessel docks on a base and then logs out, the players who were docked with the vessel wil be kicked, and when they log back on they will be docked with the base that the carrier docked on. Of course, to avoid confusion, perhaps, after the carrier has logged out in space, its name can gain an additional character in its tag to indicate that the ship has logged out.

Again, I'm not sure how doable all this is, but I thought it up just now and it seems sound.