Seeking clarification - how to set, and keep your realism settings

[rascal101]

Hi to all - OK so now we have the patch - downloaded and installed and a bunch of mods

OK so now I begin a new career - so seeign a little challenge I nominate custom and swith on everying - except I keep External view cos I like looking at my sub - try this for yourself you will have a difficulty rating of 96%

So then I go to start a new career, I type my name and off I go - nowq here's the thing - when I press F2 to go have a looksee I cannot do so as my settings have A gone to Realistic wich forbids everything or they have gone to normal wihc means I dont get the level of game play I sellected for when I orinigally set the options, I get map updates which I dont want, and I get stabilied view which I also dont want

In other words you can set the difficulty settings but you might not necassarily get the settings you want whjen you start a career

I might be missing something really obvious but this is really annoying can some one help

I want everything realistic except I want external view because I like to take a look at my sub

Regards
Rascal