Is there some penalty to staying at sea for a long time beside fuel and such?

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by fireftr18

In game, generally, there isn't any negative consequence to staying on patrol longer. RR and propbeanie have some good points to follow. If you continually refit and stay out too long, the save game files will become too large. When that happens, the game won't run correctly. The files could even become corrupted. In real life, patrols were around 30 days and most of us use that as a guide and return to home port. I return when fuel is low or out of torpedos.

Ooooooo I forgot about that one. That could be the reason I've had maybe two corrupt saves in five years. Yeah, I'd call a corrupt save a penalty....