Pickpocket Class Guide — Mine Theft Auto: Vice City

How you earn

/rob [player] steals a cut of someone's cash, never their bank. As a Pickpocket you succeed 80% of the time and take 25%. Everyone else manages 50% and 10% (max $500,000). Cooldown: 1 min.
Bank jobs (/robbery). Stand still in the zone for 30 s (10 s with a Crowbar), run to the escape point within about 7 min, then /collect. It's worth at least 4★, with a 30 min personal cooldown, and your stars are locked until you finish.
Bank jobs pay more when the city is full. Rewards grow with the number of players online: up to $500,000 for a normal robbery and $1,500,000 for a bank, with the maximum paid at 50 players.
Store holdups (/holdup). $2,000 every 3 s up to $40,000. You have to stand perfectly still.
Other classes can pull these jobs too. Pickpockets are just the best at /rob.

Stars. A successful /rob adds 2★ and a failed one adds 1★. Repeating the same crime within about 2 min doesn't keep stacking stars.
Not from a vehicle. You can't /rob somebody who is sitting in a vehicle.
Locked stars. From the moment a /robbery starts until you reach the escape point, your stars can't fade and you can't bribe your way out. Police can still arrest you.
Cash only. Your bank can't be robbed, but the cash in your pocket can. Bank your loot.
Getting caught. A ticket at 1–3★, an arrest at 4–5★. Ways out: /escape (30%, one try per sentence), /bribe a nearby officer before it gets that far (not during a robbery), or a friend with /breakout.

Bank your loot the moment you score.
Rob when the police are far away. Their glow is blue, so you can see them coming.
A Crowbar cuts a bank job from 30 s to 10 s. Worth every dollar of its $50,000.
Bank jobs pay more when the city is full, so heist at peak hours. Watch your cooldowns.
Keep some bribe money handy for afterwards. You can't bribe mid-heist.
Don't do the same crime back-to-back.