RLS Career Overhaul v2.7.0.2 Changelog

This update introduces a living opportunity economy, expands logistics work, reworks tire behavior and burnout competitions, improves the universal winch, and includes a large collection of balance, performance, and reliability fixes.

Opportunity Economy and Market Watch

• Added a living job-market system for Civil Service, Logistics, and Gig Work.

• Jobs can temporarily enter high-demand surges with increased payouts.

• Demand changes over time as NPCs complete jobs and players work high-demand activities.

• Completing high-demand jobs gradually cools that part of the market.

• Updated Market Watch with dedicated tabs and keyboard navigation.

• Added aligned Market Watch articles, job advertisements, and high-demand notifications.

• Added demand bonuses to offers, cargo cards, drop-off summaries, payout messages, and financial history.

• Improved demand classification for Taxi, BeamEats, parcel, vehicle, trailer, fluid, dry-bulk, cement, cash, and facility work.

• Prevented racing, FRE contracts, criminal work, and disabled activities from incorrectly receiving job-market surges.

• Added notification controls for job-market opportunities.

• Alphabetized the phone app list.

Logistics Loaners and Progression

• Added loaner vehicles to logistics facilities throughout West Coast USA.

• Added a purpose-built fleet of cargo vans, rigid trucks, semis, tankers, dump trucks, cement mixers, and trailers.

• Improved loaner spawning with safer teleport placement and fallback positioning.

• Added a clear “no space” fallback when a loaner cannot be placed safely.

• Loaner cargo now waits for the vehicle to finish spawning before being applied.

• Small trailer deliveries now unlock at Logistics level 1.

• Medium and bumper-pull tiltdeck trailers now unlock at level 6.

• Gooseneck and pintle trailer deliveries now unlock at level 14.

• Rebalanced early trailer payouts and Logistics XP.

• Doubled BeamEats base, distance, and streak XP.

• Improved the display of demand bonuses on logistics rewards.

Material Contracts and Deliveries

• Added support for contracts containing multiple materials or multiple loads.

• Updated pickup, cargo, delivery-progress, and payout systems to track the complete contract.

• Improved material contract generation, availability, expiration, and refill behavior.

• Corrected demand bonuses for dry-bulk and other material deliveries.

• Rebuilt open-contract payouts from their original unrounded values when demand changes.

• Prevented open cargo from being incorrectly rebaked as a material contract.

• Improved cleanup after completing or abandoning delivery commitments.

• Fixed B-train deliveries so the entire coupled trailer chain is recognized.

• Improved marker interactions for long trailers and nearby player-owned vehicles.

• Fixed loaded frameless dump configurations incorrectly appearing in dealerships and the marketplace.

• Improved BeamEats drop-off validation on large maps and locations where road-distance data is incomplete.

• Prevented vehicle-delivery demand from being counted more than once.

Roadside Service

• Added a dedicated roadside service computer for owned vehicles.

• Roadside locations can now offer repair, maintenance, tuning, or a location-specific combination of services.

• Added location-specific labor pricing.

• Added repair, maintenance, and tuning services to the West Coast pit road.

• Fixed roadside-service interaction triggers.

• Improved service-spot vehicle detection and menu routing.

• Added safer positioning when returning from roadside-service interfaces.

Tire Wear and Thermals

• Added tire-compound-based wear behavior.

• High-grip compounds now receive additional wear when overheated.

• Added rapid tire cooling when tires contact water.

• Improved water detection using tread and wheel-contact nodes.

• Dirt, gravel, sand, loose dirt, and mud now generate more appropriate heat and abrasion.

• Reduced unrealistic tire heating and wear caused by wheel-speed spikes on loose terrain.

• Prevented vehicle load from being counted twice during sliding or wheelspin.

• Added an ambient-temperature floor so tires cannot cool below current environmental conditions.

• Reworked the Tire Thermals and Wear app with Basic and Detailed views.

• Added clearer temperature, condition, compound, contact-surface, and flat-tire information.

• Added live tire-condition reads after repairs.

• Recovery and repair actions now correctly restore tire condition and clear stale damage states.

Burnout Competitions and Demolition Derby

• Reworked the Fast Automotive burnout competition.

• Added site-based automatic burnout staging and zone detection.

• Improved burnout HUD staging, live scoring, completion display, and cleanup.

• Added a short completion display before the event HUD closes.

• Repaired tires are now recognized without retaining damage from a previous attempt.

• Added minimum reward-time validation to prevent invalid instant payouts.

• Improved burnout reward calculations and leaderboard handling.

• Added more reliable detection when entering or leaving the burnout pad.

• Improved demolition-derby barrier configuration and collision updates.

• Prevented Car Jockey vehicles from entering supported freeroam events.

• Improved event cleanup when switching, resetting, or destroying vehicles.

Universal Winch

• Restored the universal winch system.

• Added vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-tree winch connections.

• Added selectable attachment points and visible cable feedback.

• Added cable length, load, tension, slack, and reel-direction information.

• Reworked cable spring and damping behavior.

• Improved pulling authority for heavy vehicles and difficult recoveries.

• Reduced rubber-banding, snapping, oscillation, and sudden force changes.

• Improved cable behavior while paying out, reeling in, or holding a load.

• Added safer cleanup when vehicles are reset, destroyed, or replaced.

• Restored compatible keyboard and mouse controls.

Off-Road Recovery

• Fixed navigation for consecutive recovery jobs.

• Corrected Recovery Yard zone mapping to the proper garage computer.

• Fixed Lua errors when recovery vehicles spawn without wheels.

• Improved delivery handling and cleanup at the Recovery Yard.

• Restored player-vehicle validation for freeroam events.

• Increased the trailer-recovery payout multiplier.

• Improved filters used to select recovery vehicles.

Balance Changes

• Increased rewards and XP for low-value repo jobs.

• Increased trailer-recovery payouts.

• Increased police-work payouts.

• Increased the frequency of available police interactions.

• Added a 10 mph overspeed allowance before police begin a pursuit.

• Rebalanced early trailer payouts to match their earlier unlock levels.

• Corrected unlock tags for gooseneck, pintle, and tiltdeck trailer deliveries.

• Improved Logistics progression descriptions and unlock cards.

Navigation and Interaction Fixes

• Added route ownership so one activity cannot erase navigation created by another.

• Car-meet cleanup no longer removes newer Marketplace, delivery, inspection, or player-selected routes.

• Declining a car-meet invitation no longer clears unrelated navigation.

• Vehicle-inspection navigation now remains active until the normal arrival distance.

• Fixed asynchronous cleanup removing newly selected destinations.

• Improved parking-marker detection for coupled vehicles and full trailer chains.

• Improved interaction detection for long tankers and trailers whose center is outside the parking area.

• Fixed coupled vehicles incorrectly triggering unrelated markers.

• Added recovery when the big-map interface becomes stuck.

• Prevented repeated marker-settle timers from blocking interaction prompts.

Maintenance and Engine Packages

• Fixed the engine-oil maintenance section disappearing.

• Improved detection of core engine components.

• Improved maintenance support for engines using non-standard component names.

• Fixed recovery actions not repairing engine damage.

• Improved engine-package compatibility using partial device-type matching.

• Improved engine-package thumbnail framing by prioritizing the engine itself over transmissions, exhausts, radiators, and other peripheral parts.

• Fixed thumbnail capture ordering when creating a new engine package.

• Improved failure handling when an engine package cannot be created.

Career, Skills, and FRE Fixes

• Standard careers now select a random eligible starting garage.

• The selected starting garage is saved so it remains consistent.

• Hardcore careers continue to receive no free starting garage.

• Removed tuning tents from the random starting-garage pool.

• Prevented existing careers from receiving an additional free garage.

• Fixed skill XP not refreshing correctly in the Skills app.

• Restored legacy repo-truck controls.

• Fixed FRE contract tier checks not matching their configured unlocks.

• Added retry handling when sanctioned racing cannot immediately find a route.

• Fixed sanctioned-race availability and interface behavior.

• Fixed dropping a sponsor deleting the sponsor slot.

• Improved phone notification polling and FRE status updates.

Dealership and Marketplace Fixes

• Dealership discoveries are now saved immediately.

• Fixed dealership discovery data being compared against the wrong save version.

• Improved persistence of dealership access between sessions.

• Prevented loaded frameless dump-trailer configurations from entering dealerships.

• Improved vehicle-offer cleanup so completed offers do not repeatedly clear map markers.

Weather and Performance

• Reduced the number of rendered rain particles during storms.

• Disabled unnecessary rain-particle lighting work.

• Reduced how frequently wet road materials are updated.

• Quantized wetness changes to avoid expensive updates for visually insignificant differences.

• Prevented repeated time-of-day writes when the value has not changed.

• Improved weather audio and environment update scheduling.

• Disabled tire-provider work on unconfigured traffic vehicles.

• Reduced tire UI telemetry to 5 Hz.

• Removed recurring per-frame tire-temperature table allocations.

• Cached frequently reused ground-material information.

• Improved contract-maintenance scheduling.

• Added retry backoff for unavailable sanctioned-racing routes.

• Removed obsolete tire-provider calls that could cause crashes or repeated Lua log spam.

• Improved extension fallbacks and background-system stability.