The highest tier items should be unprofitable.

Tanks, Howitzers, Level 35+ guns and level 4 armor.

These items should be purchased for the sole purpose of swinging games in your teams favor; Not for making a profit.

They should cost so much money that even the best players would rarely break even after buying them.

The fact that a TANK costs less than a middling infantry loadout is ridiculous. It's thoughtless on the developers part.

It's fine for top tier items to be worlds better than the next best thing, but they need to be money sinks for it to be balanced. Something that people won't really justify buying over and over again until the end of wipe.

That way, early and mid wipe, even if no lifers grind that shit in 3 days they're still not going to be purchasing them every single life.

Then, towards the end of a season with wipe around the corner, we can have crazy matches where people have saved up all season to spam tanks and crazy kits for the last week.