Talk:Trade Workshop (Age of Empires II)/@comment-30831233-20171206221717/@comment-100.36.175.86-20181123154205

How about instead of generating free gold, it converts 1 wood and 1 food to 2 gold per villager inside, every 3 seconds or so. If 5 villagers is the max per workshop, every 3 seconds you will lose 5 food and 5 wood and gain 10 gold. If you run out of one of the two resources, it will generate 1 gold per vill per 3 seconds.

You can make 3, and basically get 10 gold per second average, but lose 5 wood and 5 food per second, straining your trash wars spam ability but letting you make gold units.

It can sort of represent villagers making luxury crafts for export and sale out of food and wood, such as fine wine, artisinal cheese, gourmet food for nobles, beer, furnature, carrages etc.