Strange thing to ask in a supposedly cooperative game But can me and my friends, while playing in a static squad, always return to the same station’s instance after a mission? Like, a basic social, bonding thing and everything? I had to ask them stream for me, to give them a tour around station, explaining what that or that terminal does (they are new). And then emotes which we can only use at the station right now would make a little bit of sense too, may be? Showing them to random people doesn’t.
Honestly, I don’t see any reason to not land even random squads to the same station like this. More chances for people to actually make new friends and bond? Would feel more natural, you literally just got back from the same mission.
Even Aliens Fireteam Elite, with appalling lack of modern social features (no text/voice chat, very limited contextual ping, P2P host-only missions) understood this. And they weren’t selling macro transaction drip.
Showing players their friend’s bling is like marketing 101.
~Is there anything FS does besides the gameplay loop that isn’t a head-scratcher?
On the topic of squads in general, making squads opt-in instead of opt-out is probably one of the biggest mistakes they made if they wanted to try to build a community. Path of least resistance and all that.
I levelled two fresh characters to 30 with a friend, and we only spawned together in the MS post-mission twice.
They were both good times, lots of giggling and silly emotes ensued (yes we are childish). What a difference it would make to the enjoyment of time spent in this game if this was a thing…
Or is it that in the grim dark future of the 41st millenium there are only miserably fragmented lobbies..?
But can me and my friends, while playing in a static squad, always return to the same station’s instance after a mission? Like, a basic social, bonding thing and everything? 
I had to ask them stream for me, to give them a tour around station, explaining what that or that terminal does (they are new). And then emotes which we can only use at the station right now would make a little bit of sense too, may be? Showing them to random people doesn’t.