the Liberty carrier, and making dockable player ships?

[Alex.]

Yeah, this can be done.
Make a seperate copy of FL, and go and play on Eagle Utopia for a few hours, ask someone with a BS to demonstrate player dockable ships to you.
It is truly awesome.
What it does is, you type something when the carrier is selected, the carrier gets a notification, and then types something back, server then lets the small ship dock, and the player gets beamed - to a special base in the system (which means the mod team need to put that into the copy of discovery), when you want to launch again, it makes you reload your char, then you launch from the special base, and it local system beams you, so it looks like you came out of the carrier.
As I said, truly awesome:)