General Where am I? (Fleet Carrier Docking)

Yesterday I had the carrier down in a system providing support for a friendly faction. After a while I decided to jump to another system a do some missions at home.
No sooner had I arrived when I got a message from a friend asking "Where am I? I logged in and we were prepping for jump."
I had no idea I had a passenger onboard.
He took it with stride. We did a few missions in my home system and then jumped back to the starting point. Winged up and did some Pew Pews in the CZ's.
All in all it was fun, but it does lead me to one suggestion.

Who's Docked at my carrier?
Perhaps an external tool will be created by someone one day, but that usually requires something like EDMC to be running by the CMDRs.
Is it possible to have a list in the Carrier Management window that gives a list of who's along for the ride?
Maybe one day?
 
A warning to ship owners of passengers would be useful to warn them before they leave but in general unless you own the carrier it is the best practice not to log off while docked at one.
 
It would be good as a Carrier owner to be able to see an audit log of who has docked on your carrier.
Generic carrier traffic (2 x Anaconda, 3 x Asp Scout in the past 24 hours) if nothing else.
The same traffic report that fixed stations have.
 
Yeah, Elite Dangers made the carriers mess with everyone. The galaxy system display doesn't update right away, so you could end up with a ghost carrier too where you jump into the system, just because someone was there when you jumped in, someone else will see the carrier space and jump in only to find nothing, but the security zone will still be active. There needs to be a warning on docking that the carrier is not stationary. Another thing is logging in while the carrier jumps needs to say, "your ship aboard carrier is in the middle of a jump please wait until the carrier is done jumping before logging in. Also it would be so cool fi ships could follow the carrier through their jump cordar, like in Star Wars, one ship had a jump engine and all ships went thru.
 
Any hotel or mass transit system keeps track of who's staying or riding.
Visibility should be limited to the owner, to maintain privacy.

But that also leads to What happens if I have someone docked who uses their docked ship as a tracking beacon?
Ejecting someone to the nearest station would be a great function as well.
 
But that also leads to What happens if I have someone docked who uses their docked ship as a tracking beacon?
That was something that was discussed during the beta - i.e. a way to keep track of your enemies.
Frontier have provided the ability to actually tag a carrier with a bookmark so I think it is now moot as the bookmark will move with the carrier.
 
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