Logging out in a dangerous area, dungeon, etc for more than 15 min, will respawn in you last stored safe zone. Safe zone are saved when you rest somewhere. The faction base point can only be accessed from the OOC area after a server reset as far as I know.
Also, everytime you rest in a zone that is a potential safe point, there is a message in the server chat saying that a new safe point was stored.
As far as I know, the system worked as intended there. You logged out in a zone marked as dungeon/dangerous/etc, and when you logged in again you were teleported to your last saved Safe Zone.
As for not going to the OOC Area, you never go there unless there is a server reset or if a DM teleports you there.