Licenses are stupid. Criminal won't care about having a license when they're killing the entire city. Also, criminals aren't the only people that use weapons, cops sometimes use weapons against the criminals.
That's exactly how perma-death mechanic helps: Criminals are actually afraid of their lives.
The time they spent to buy that damn pistol off the hands of some bigwig just so they get caught on a killing spree for one minute and lose all of it?
I think not.
Criminals will actually be very careful when killing someone. They don't want to be wanted or killed. Most of the time crimes will be everything but murder, because mugging is way easier to perform than murder.
Oh, also, courtroom system and enhenaced jail stuffs will help as well. Criminals will be afraid of jail. Criminals will be afraid of guilty verdict. Criminals will be afraid of death sentence.
The whole idea of a city RPG is stupid imo. I'd like to see the effort put into something that won't suck in the end or won't get finished. Guess not though..
Trust me, this CityRPG has way more effort than that piece of stuff Iban made.
Grinding won't be the main aspect in this CityRPG, the actual point of it is to enjoy the damn game and interact with other players in all ways possible. Everything will be mostly player-driven. Nothing appears out of thin air: companies, factories, money, etc., that's what players of the game are there for.