I can see the complains coming in now. Come on PWE don't change a system that isn't broken. Gamers chose the Reputation abilities for a reason.
The way you have it we are going to be losing half of our Reputation abilities with this change. That is unless this line: "All players will have four slots for passive Ground powers, four slots for passive Space powers, and four slots for Active powers." is for each Reputation area (Nukara, New Romulus, Dyson, Omega and Undine).
The only way that you will avoid the complaints is to give 1 slot per Reputation area as the player advances the character (toon) up through the Reputation area's tiers. This would have a character ending up with 5 Tier 1 ground abilities, 5 Tier 2 space abilities,5 Tier 3 ground abilities,5 Tier 4 space abilities, and then the Tier 5 abilities. The bank of abilities to chose from should be double from what they currently are.
There would be no need to give a 50% increase in the abilities bonuses, and no reason to give a player the option of exchanging the Reputation abilities when they are between combat situations. What they chose is what they are stuck with unless they spend the free exchange token they get as they advanced through the Reputation system or purchase more tokens to change out their powers.
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