Talk:Trade Workshop (Age of Empires II)/@comment-4855012-20151117032158/@comment-667468-20151117034710

It could theoretically be tooled to work as a counterpart to the Market in Age II by slowly spending Gold to generate a trickle of the selected resource type (Food, Wood or Stone). It should only be able to generate one type of resource at a time but has multiple modes that it can switch between like the Factory in Age III. Initially, the conversion process would require a substantial amount of Gold per second, but with upgrades will begin to cost less and less, while generating more resources than previously.

Obviously it will only be of practical use if the player has a lot of Gold, but if they do their economy will be much less dependent on actual workers that could be assigned to some other tasks.