Real simple idea here folks. As it stands, it doesnt matter what fucking orders you give as SL, or what plan you give at briefing as CO. Marines will ignore all that shit and just unga out to do the usual meta routes.
So how to change this? Incentivize the marines.
Now there are several systems people might suggest or propose, such as objectives or the like. But there is a simple method that would be fairly easy to do by hacking together code that already exists.
Xeno leaders give pheromones to the xenos around them. Squad leaders have orders they can give, with a cooldown. My proposal would be slightly nerf orders and then have SLs or aSLs have them act like pheromones for their squad. This would mean as long as marines ACTUALLY STAY ON THEIR FUCKING SL they get a buff. Every unga wants buffs.
This will make marines want to stay on their SL's and improve squad cohesion.
More shit could be added to this regarding CO/XO/SO, and possibly the ability to somehow have CIC OW apply debuffs to marines refusing orders (only when off ship). However, just doing the SL's like this for now would provide a good test point to see how such a system could work.
Pros:
Marines will stay on SLs
Rewards squad cohesion
SLs wont have to wonder where the fuck their squad has gone to
Cons:
Its new and people will hate it
Constant order buff might be OP, but then again Xenos already get constant buffs via pheromones
SLs will be targeted even more