Yuritana
Discussing whether or not a person should stay on Silan is pointless, because I've already decided this one character is staying there. The discussion is over in that regard. And Suboxide's "scaring newcomers" comment is completely out of line because the one thing I always see higher level silan characters (myself and others) doing is helping new players in various ways.
Talking about max mob levels vs equipment levels is also irrelevant. There's two things at play here:
1. The devs decided that Silan was going to be capped at 50, and so they went to the skill trainers and trimmed the list, making only certain abilities available to Silan characters. For the most part that amounts to everything 50+ is unavailable, though there are some exceptions (easiest one to point out is you can't buy the prospecting for choice mats stanza, even though it's only level 5).
2. Of all the skills available for purchase on Silan, ONLY the spells available at magic level 40+ are made unusable by the mission equipment.
Then ask for the devs to remove those spells. Problem solved.