more current items are usually better than older items), starting the game at any point in time and playing for a moderate and continuous period will ensure you pick up some decent karts. However, with the standard concept of 'power creep' (aka.
Like a majority of games operating under the 'games as a service' (GaaS) model, most of the best items are acquired as part of time-limited events. Primary emphasis will be on karts, but I may make some notes here and there about other items. This post will roughly go over the experiences and priorities F2P players can consider aiming for, as well as give some perspectives for those who may consider putting in a bit (or a lot) of money to open up more variety.
I expect anyone reading this to know what 'Free to Play' (F2P) means at this point, but if you don't, the very short of it is playing a game without spending any money on it. Here comes your seasonal massive walls of text.