Yes, I know what you mean.
I'm currently swapping between two flavors of careers, one on full realism with RFB by BEERY and some graphic mods/tweaks (and imperial units for a more historical aspect), which I load up and play over the weekend, and the other is a Quake-style naval shooter "career" (dual deck guns, +ammo, +deck gun damage, +sub speed, +torp damage, +crash depth, +elite crew), for which I'm not using any mods, just edited some files by myself. Obviously I don't play the latter for the career of it, just for the instant action and Quake-ish fun of it and to get rid of the stress accumulated at work
Overall, I prefer the more realistic version - gives me things to brag about when I'm out for a beer with the guys
