It was my idea to add the Golden Gate and it was removed because it "had no purpose" and "didn't match anything we had planned" and a bunch of other excuses. The thing is, the Golden Gate has been around on Classic since I can remember, and it hasn't had a purpose for years. All it has done is foreshadow the basic premise of "Graal" and fp4 and I believed it would be nice for the players to have that. Judging from the reaction on Facebook and on here it had served its purpose well, but now it is gone.
The removal had nothing to do with the graphic, as look at the other graphics on the server. The removal had nothing to do with its purpose, as look at 90% of the houses on the server. It was simply removed without reason, yet we've just had four additional houses released by the same person that removed the Golden Gate, and these houses serve no purpose at all. Typical Graal, eh?