Personally I just don't look at the blasted thing. The hull damage meter is just a built in cheat, put there by the devs because they were intimidated by whiners. In fact the real submarine skippers had no idea what their hull damage percentage was. They also had no dirty underwear percentage gauge or conning tower rust gauge. Luckily since nobody whined about needing those, we don't have them.
Much damage aboard a submarine was hidden, completely unknown to the crew. U-505 was damaged in an air attack and for the next year limped around the Atlantic with damage that couldn't even be found on shore at the yard!
We have an irrational "need" to know everything. When you have that, it's called a video game, not a simulation. The unknown is an indispensable part of true simulation and needs to be preserved in the face of any number of whiners. Otherwise, we might as well play Pokemon.
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