Glad to see this really is in the works and like practically everyone else here, I really hope they save this for the summer and let Scott take a break. As for them performing Core in its entirety, as much as I have heard those songs, they have never really gotten old to me and while I will admit that Core is definitely not STP's most creative album, it remains my favorite simply because in my opinion it's the best hard rock album ever made.
It'll definitely be a cool experience to see the whole album played in its entirety and hopefully every night's setlist is not just the 12 tracks from Core and they'll throw some other stuff in there. For what it's worth, and I know tons of people here hate Creed, they're doing a similar tour this year playing their albums My Own Prison and Human Clay in their entirety and I know they've also made a point to advertise that they'll be doing songs from other albums too...hopefully STP does the same thing.