🏪 Store Robbery

Requirements

• A lockpick or advanced lockpick
• At least 2 on-duty police online, or the robbery won’t even start

Registers

Lockpick a register (36 available across roughly 19 stores citywide) and work through a short minigame window to crack it open. There’s a real chance your lockpick breaks on a failed attempt — advanced lockpicks are more reliable.

Cracking a register also has a guaranteed chance of dropping a sticky note with that store’s safe code — this is the only way to get into the safe.

The safe

Every store has one safe (keypad or padlock style). With the matching sticky note in hand:

1. Crack it with the safe-cracking minigame. You get up to 3 failed attempts before the safe locks down hard for 30 minutes.
2. Even on success, the safe doesn’t open right away — it stays cracked-but-locked for 5 minutes before you can actually loot it, so don’t wander off and forget about it.
3. Loot: a pile of dirty cash, several gold watches, gold bars, and about a 50% chance at a piece of route intel — the item you need to pull off a truck robbery.

Cooldown

An entire store — every register and its safe — shares one cooldown: 30 minutes after the last hit.