As I've said in other posts, I'd like to see the boys fall in the water and not feel like they were glued to the sub. This ties well into the following image. It might very well be way too late to think about implementing such things, and they are quite minor but still...
Suppose you don't just torpedo lone ships, but, at least in the early days of the war, you can signal them to stop and search them for war material, be able to interact with the life boats, report the sinking on open frequency, signal ships that you will not attack them if they pick up survivors, etc. For example after meeting a small convoy of 1 patrol craft, 1 tanker, a cargo and a small passanger ship, I manage to sink all but the passanger ship which ran like a coward while the other crews were drowning. Such actions would raise your renown with the enemy and determine how well you'd be treated if you had to abandon ship. So, if you were swimming to a nearby DD to save your worthless life at the end of your campaign, they might not pick you up, or even worse, gun you down with their machine guns. Or prosecute you after the war instead of giving you the proper recognition. In case your renown was high enough, they'd even allow you to surface and surrender instead of blowing you out of the water, the second you showed your captain's hat. And, depending on your renown, BdU might even try to bring you back to Germany. A sort of "one time phoenix down" to allow you to continue your career (or simply put you at a desk job, and on display for propaganda).
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