Does anyone know how to make a character have no ship? Like start out with no ship at all?
It may be possible, check "PROGRAM\Ships\Ships_init.c".
I believe in there there should be some entry for having no ship at all.
If it does exist, then go to where you give your characters ships, and have it so they get this "ship".
Unfortunately, I don't have CoAS installed at the moment, so I can't help you more than that.
Also an advice, when uploading mods make sure you put everything in the correct folders, and not just upload the files themselves.
Someone experienced can figure where the files go, but not all users can.
In order to do this, you will have to make the correct folder structure and place the files where they should be.
Then compress the folders along with the files contained, into one archive, like a ".zip" file for example.