Quote from Steed:

First of all thanks to the captain who told me this some time ago, sorry forgot your name. All credit goes to you, any way some months back I raised this renown business why the heck should we use are renown and so on.

First thing back up your originals first and keep them safe.

Follow this path
\Silent Hunter IV\Data\UPCData\UPCUnitsData

As you can see nice selection of Notepads you want Ammunition Notepad
Don't forget to back it up

To make this easy after you made your back up copy delete the contents and just copy all this lot and paste it in, what this has done you no longer use your renown to pay and you get all the torps on Jan 1st 1943. If you want all them even sooner where you see 1943-01-01 just change it.

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