+50 to sense of quick entitlement
Get to 60 valor and get your champion gaps with champion commendations or better yet, hope for some battlemaster. In the meantime, use your consolation prize, the centurion gear that is there for a reason.
They are just more efficient at missions and crafting, that is all. Although shortly after I hit 10k with Mako, she did start talking about marriage. So I would suggest not capping it.
a few days ago it said patch 1.1 (which is up on test) but i guess it is not ready since that has been downgraded to 1.0.2d now (nice stealth update to news feed by the way) We will find out soon enough!
Since we have only had one tuesday post launch so far its hard to tell. I would wait and see the next few weeks before you decide. Yes I do believe that is their intended window, but who knows if any issues come up that require speedy fixing and they alter that. You never REALLY know but it is a good guess.
They also plan these downtimes a good 3 - 4 days ahead of time if you check the forums religiously. Good for me to get a shift covered or pick a night to go out with the lady.
Add exploration so people can complain about lack of content in space and then they can code content and waste resources that would of improved the ground game. Genius.