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- Keep track of their dirty underwear. Dirty underwear is bad for morale, at least according to our mothers, and would severely affect combat readiness. Let's have a dirty underwear monitor, showing the percentage of dirty underwear at all times!
- Conning tower rust gauge. Listen, if you are so lax as to permit excessive rust to form on your conning tower, chances are you are lackadaisical in some other areas which contribute to fighting the war effectively. Too much conning tower rust should cost you renown and result in less accurate torpedo targeting.
- Battery electrolyte levels. We need a gauge for the electrolyte level in each of the several hundred cells aboard. Letting just one get too low would release chlorine gas into the atmosphere, ruining appetites everywhere. We should also have a specific gravity gauge for each cell as well so we will know whether we have to add distilled water or acid. Just click on the water or acid, then click on the appropriate cell to adjust, then test again. Repeat as necessary several hundred times per day! Wow! NOW we're getting somewhere.
- On board submarine newspaper. Each sub should have to produce an on-board newspaper, using a 1980 version of WordStar instead of a manual typewriter. They were just about equivalent torture to use. Failure to produce the day's edition would result in morale loss which would impair the crew's ability to maneuver the submarine effectively.
- We could swab the deck with our mouse moving back and forth over the deck until it's bright and clean every morning, similar to a grind in an MMORPG. Wouldn't that be fun!
I'm sure there are other realism features we can bring to this excellent game to come. Poker games and torpedo juice drinking come to mind. With a few more great ideas like mine, this game could be so boring that NOBODY would ever want to play it. Isn't that exciting?