All my testing shows the programming is very simplified, having the doors open for a month has no effect on torpedoes, flow noise, speed, range, or anything else. Stock game has the max depth setting at 30 meters (99 feet) so if you dive deeper than that the doors will shut by themselves. You can change the depth in the same SIM files, I have mine set for 99 meters so I don't have to screw around with it, I open the doors and leave them open.
The animation subroutine for an outer door indicator exists - if you change to external view and go underwater with the camera view you can look at the doors from the outside to verify open or shut. If someone could find out what controls that animation and apply it to some kind of light or symbol on the torpedo control panel it would eliminate the problem.
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