Edit Renown - not for cheating, there is valid a reason

[Phoenix3000]

HI all,

Had a very annoying problem last night with renown.

I just finished a patrol in Feb 1942, driving a type VIIC out of Brest. I came across TWO convoys and scored 11 ships in total, 2 tankers and 9 cargo with full manual targeting and full realism settings (except external camera - I too like the eye candy!). My total tonnage was just over 83,000 tons.

Now, when I returned to port I had earned a little over 3000 Renown points. So, after promoting some crew members, and enlisting some new men I still had about 2000 left.

So I went to the u-boat upgrade screen and added some Bold decoys, an engine upgrade and a few other bits and pieces including the first radar. I still had a little over 500 renown left.

I then clicked on the torpedo loadout screen and saw that it had put Falke homing torpedoes into my forward tubes. Personally I prefer the steam driven or standard electrics at the front as I usually fire from up close or from within a convoy.

So I changed these out no problem. But - I accidentally added a Falke to my stern stores. This took off 500 renown leaving me with only 25 left. When I changed it back to the steam driven torp that was there in the first place I didn't get the renown back! - I just lost 500 renown points!!

So, unable to find a way around it I exited the game, and updated my personnel profile in SH3 Commander and left it for the night, with a view to posting this question today.

So the question is - how can I get those 500 points back that basically shouldn't have been kept by the game. In this instance I don't see it as cheating if I edit a config file somewhere, but if there is another way I would appreciate it if you can point me in the right direction.

Cheers guys!

Px3000

PS - Just noticed I screwed up the grammar in the title!!! - Should obviously read "Edit Renown - not for cheating, there is a valid reason"