But you only get a flying mount if you're a mayor or whatever of a metropolis. It's perfect for creating hatred amongst the casuals! Class warfare baby!
I'm going to be annoyed when they handle their Node system the boring lazy way and just have 1 version of each tier of a specific node, instead of having versions for when you're building up vs when one of these PVP battles has torn down the node. It'll be lame to see a Metropolis just "poof" back into a village with no evidence of anything greater ever having been there, and suddenly the level 3 node Kobold Infestation event is back.