Okay, wow. A lot of text has appeared. I'll try to give my IMO here on the matters that has been raised already and maybe some new once.
1. Bretonia need to loose or to win the war idea. I think it's wrong. The better idea is to do the following. GRN need to be given that habitable planet in the Tau system next to Leeds which will be their base of operation. GRN need to be driven away from the Leeds entirely and switch to clashes with Liberty and Bretonia forces in the Leeds and Tau systems. Leeds docking ring is to be destroyed by retreating GRN forces leaving that docking thing for small ships only. Reason: GRN forces got stretched on their rush to the Leeds and Liberty's strike could cut the fleet from it's supply lines, that's why GRN had to blow everything that they couldn't hold and return to their positions in Tau and Leeds edges switching tactics to fleet engagements across the Leeds system with Liberty and Bretonia joint forces.
Here, for having a good time, devs need to REALLY consider lowering amount of stationed capital ships around Bretonia and Tau systems. Those are not promoting any activity for sure, in fact they do remove it. So delete all those battleships around or replace their turret so they act like a regular bases firepower-wise. Use regular weapon platforms if you want to mark the region to be someone's stronghold - they are not doing much damage and can be destroyed.
This also applies to capital ship patrols that need to be replaced with regular fighter squadron patrols. This is important as well.
2. Return jumphole networking to it's 4.85 state. Seriously, navigating via Bretonia now is too frustrating, especially if you want some unlawfuls to give Bretonia some attention. Of cause this need to be accompanied by the Piracy reworks - at that moment factions like Molly, Corsairs, Gaians and others are nowhere to be seen, maybe some occasional guy here and there, this doesn't make up for an "active faction". In light of that I feel that Bretonia's raids to Gamma are useless mainly because there is no Corsairs. Golden Age of piracy returning might change things so Bretonia won't need to go further then Omega 5\3 in order to have it's pews with Corsairs.
This of cause involves such things as:
1. Nerfed scanner ranges back to 4k top.
2. Nerfed transports speeds, armors and firepower.
3. Return of the "Caps can't pirate" rules.
4. Getting rid of jump trading completely
5. Aforementioned jumphole networking rollback to 4.85
etc etc
3. Changing lore too much - NO here. Because lore of such factions as a whole House are to remain as close to original vanilla as possible. I know you want your faction to bend around the RP you're pushing but server-wise it's bad because new players will have a hard time digging their way through a lot of forum crap and that's too much (also wiki is still broken). So it's no for Bretonia's surrender for sure and Bretonia's dismembering into smaller houses. It have to remain as it used to be. This also applies to SYSTEM LAYOUT - someone in dev team thinks he's more smart then original Freelancer developers from Digital Anvil. No, you're not. So STOP ruining systems please.
4. BAF players need to have a little change in their mindsets since it's a long standing practice to hear a lot of complains about your behavior in game guys. It's strange to hear that you want to have more fights and raids while for real you have a long term practice of avoiding fights. Or the other way around going into fights with excessive gankforce. You kept applying this game style for long enough to screw away most of the people who wanted to play in Bretonia - this is the part of the problem as well. Of cause you can keep claiming it's not true but my opinion stands.
