ill try to answer what few questions i can
1) i know you get a penalty for sinking neutral ships...is there a rule (like 50% of their renown when you sink them as enemy ships)?
i believe you are penalized for the full renown value of the ship
2) do you also suffer penaltys when damaging neutral ships?
I think you are only penalized for SINKING neutral or friendly ships... not damaging them
3) has anybody ever sunk a hospital ship? What tonnage do they have and what penalty did you get?
There have been a few SH3 GWX users who have sunk hospital ships, but according to the GWX manual there is a massive renown penalty... i dont recall what the penalty is, but i have heard of cases where the skipper saw a renown level that was many thousands of points in the negative... it would take a career FULL of perfect missions to get back up to ZERO renown. The GWX dev team put hospital ships in the game to add to the realism and to have them be respected... they are considered untouchable and sacred and it is a sort of subsim blasphemy to sink them.
Answers to questions 4 and 5 are in the GWX manual and the SH3 manual avalable in the documentation folder in your SH3 directory
8) (most important) how to use the magnetic pistol in torpedos without(!) manual targetting?
go to the torpedo data computer screen, on the pistol selection switch change it from (I) to (M) and set the "running depth" to about one or two meters deeper than the draft of the target ship... draft can be determined by looking it up for the specific ship in the ship ID book in the periscope screen.
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