Mjollren
(to be f2p in Ryzom is to be relegated as a healer most of the time; tanks have shitty life, mages can't really hit anything)
That statement certainly applies to f2p that want to run around q200 or q250 regions, but thats not what a f2p player is limited to. In any game if you went to a region twice your level what would you expect to do?! Teams of f2p can hunt lvl 160 nameds and probably a few 170 bosses. So the limitations are not game imposed, but rather a lack of knowledge or creativity by the f2p player.