One of the main features of Issue #8: To Protect and Serve is the introduction of the Veteran Rewards program for players of City of Heroes and City of Villains. MMORPG.com has an overview of the system and a Dev Journal from Positron, where he discusses the design of the system:

Coming up with the Veteran Rewards was one of the coolest things I’ve done as Lead Designer on the “City of” games so far. It was really a challenge to come up with cool rewards that players have been asking for while at the same time making sure that nothing became the “end-all-be-all” reward that every character MUST have. In addition, I wanted to throw in some cool rewards that players hadn’t asked for, but that I knew would be useful for them and make the veteran players’ lives a little easier.

Head over to MMORPG.com to read their Veteran Rewards overview and the full Dev Journal from Positron.