Remove AEX from merchants on RP.

[Wander]

I still think that the aex should have a limited supply(because infinite powerful shotgun ammo is just questionable to have as an option.) I would definitely agree though that the current issue most are having with the spes 12’s is heavily linked with a recent trend among people to just use the spes12 as the “punchline” to their escalation due to how easy it kills. Other weapons just don’t have the same ease of use and require some thought to use or they are something that does not work as well against security which is why they tend to be looked over. This is to say, people are picking the spes 12 whenever they don’t have a specific idea in mind because it feels like the most viable weapon to use against security or people in general due to things like its ability to fling people into walls then stunlock them to death with successive shots. I think this has been affected also by a general cultural push for antags to be more lethal rather than passive thus moving people towards the more effective ways to kill crew. The “more effective ways” it seems has become the spes 12.

I don’t think ahelping this will necessarily entirely “fix” it since I see plenty of these rampages properly escalated by different people doing stuff like gimmicks rather than just a handful of people. I instead think this is a culture thing that will change with time and the community adapting. For example, if people keep shotgun rampaging, maybe sec will start issuing their own shotguns once they find out there is one aboard. Once people learn that escalation in terms of weapons on their end leads to equal escalation on the crew’s then things may return to a more normal state.

If someone is doing something like rampaging every round without escalation or just using the spes every single time and it is obviously a behavior thing, that can of course be fixed by ahelping. I just think when it is a lot of different people then it is indicative of something else causing it.