I don't want it feel like play to win either. I feel as that would drive people away (just like a leveling system). Once someone is so high up, whats the point because when you join you will just be destroyed. I also feel as the server is pay to win now which was never my intention. I want regular users to have fun and I also want other users that want to help the server to feel powerful too.
Maybe a good line is: Any workshop weapon you have bought will be placed on the Black Market Dealer for like 750,000 a shipment of 5? That way players will always have a way to gain these weapons and feel as powerful as anyone else. Of course the price would be adjusted. Tom's m4a1 would be like 200,000 while the dragonlore would be 900,000 plus.
I don't know if this is a good idea or not but it would also give users a chance to really farm money and make some sort of goal? I could ask anyone who purchased a workshop weapon if they would allow me to do that. If they said yes I would allow them $10 to spend on their custom class, I mean it would only be a shipment of 5 weapons for an insane amount. It would also be listed as "SuperKermit's Awp Dragonlore" "Tyrone's Mosin" ect..
Also what about a system where users can purchase VIP for $5,000,000 in game money?
Damn, I wish this was a feature when I first played this sounds great