The results of the alpha test in action. None of the devs seem to have questioned what it meant that alpha was stacked with people whose chief obsession is creating their own buildings, and to what degree that represents the wide-release audience (and does not).
If you want an entrance, you can just download one in the store. I don't know what you mean with the wide-release audience. I see what you're implying, but that's just nonsense imo. No one benefits from a prebuilt entrance.
Not the building lovers, they want to build their own. Then there are the coaster builders, that only care about one ride, which they theme the way the want to theme it. They'd hate a modern entrance building behind their medieval theming. We also have the people that do not care about buildings at all. They only place paths, rides and shops. They wouldn't miss an entrance. The last group is a group of players that likes buildings, but do not like or are not able to build their own. Well, these people will download a shop building, a coaster station, a main street and so on. And what can they also download? That's right, an entrance...
I think it's quite weird to say the dev's didn't question the effect the removed entrances would have. You're impying they didn't thought about it. As if one dev said: "Well, let's remove those things, the folks on the forum don't like them!". And all the others went: "Okay, we'll do so in a second, just have to finish our sandwiches!". They have thought about everything, so they've thought about this matter too. And like I did, they came to the conclusion that prebuilt entrances don't serve any purpose, other than limit creativity of those who want to be creative. Give me one reason why someone should want a prebuilt entrance, where they have no choice in how it is going to look or where it will be placed. Do those people also want a prebuilt park? Cause those are in the store to![wink]
click the entrance and click "edit the building", then go to "shop and facility" tab, click "entrance" button, and you can find extra entrance pieces to add into
That's what the OP meant with: "small entrances". He's talking about an entire building,.