Why have you stopped playing? You are missing all of the fun! Just keep your scope down except when you need it. The next release will hopefully reduce the occurrences of that, but they will still shoot torpedoes at you, just from closer in. If they see your scope and you are within a weapon platform's range, they will shoot at your scope with all they have at their disposal. Be aware that a cannon shell can travel through water also, and can impact your conn, sinking you just as easily as a torpedo can... As soon as you are finished shooting at them, dive to get out of the way of anything the enemy shoots at you...
We hope RR doesn't have writer's cramps, and hasn't gone blind or cross-eyed from trying to keep up with the ReadMe files from several other modders... We should see it before Christmas, but Thanksgiving might be overly optimistic... too much food to prepare and eat here in the US of A.
PS: I am knocking on wood after having stated that...