With 100% realism I did not get any renown for my first patrol

[CjStaal]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

1. There is a bug. You don't get the renown for returning to port; only for patrolling your grid.

2. Are you playing GWX? GWX removes the renown for reaching and patrolling your grid. You only get rewarded for ships you sink.

Originally Posted by Kip336

GWX doesn't give you renown for staying in the patrol area anymore.

The reason GWX took this out is because some patrol grids are impossible (Mostly on land, too shallow etc.), so to make it fair, they give you a little bit more renown when you sink ships.

It's also a bit of a realism thing: U-boats didn't patrol a single square for a day and returned home - they would get ordered from location to location to patrol if there wasn't any targets, and would only return once fuel/provisions or torpedoes where out.
(Not 100% correct, but it gets the point across.)

I am playing GWX. This is good information. I won't bother going to my patrol grid anymore. No reason to. But really, what are the objectives now? Just go wherever the hell I want and destroy things?