Mike i would say the robberies should'nt absolutely be a threat crime since robbing a store should be im my opinion "a clean job without shooting a bullet", italian job style. Since robbing stores is the main source of money for everyone, especially newbies, i think it should be leaved as a nonthreat crime. Can we do a petition for that? Also because cops can shoot you almost in any occasion. There is almost no chance to do the robber in a nonthreat way. You just have to rob something within 5 minutes. New players robbing a store intuitively with their very first colt 1911 shouldn't be killed without pity. They should be chased and arrested, preserving their life until the moment in which the officers or someone else's life has been put in danger.
Personally when i play as a cop, i always chase robbers, trying to stop and arrest them. I never consider them a threat unless they SHOOT. A cop should be thinking "You shoot i shoot". The criminal should be the one choosing to shoot, and begin his threat gameplay or either not shoot and play as a nonthreat robber. Also robbing a store doesn't mean threatening to kill the cashier, maybe i would be menacing to cut one of their fingers e.g. or destroy his car, break their phone, kidnap their family or just beat them a lot if they don't give the cash. There are other ways of intimidation threatening to kill someone it's far from that.
As you said threatening a player is a behavior punishable with death, but NPC are actually non players, non playing characters. I think it's completely absurd killing someone that robbed a supermarket. Doesn't happen in real life. Should not happen in a game
Yes ma'am
