$25,000,000

According to Maxim's list of 7 game currencies worth more than the US Dollar.

quote Maxim

MINERAL (StarCraft)
Worth: $25 million (U.S.)
Methodology: 100 minerals = Terran Vespene gas refinery. A gas refinery in Arizona = $2.5 billion
What It Means: At this point, you might as well make a three-button suit out of your worthless money and light yourself on fire.

So it costs $1,250,000,000 USD to make 1 Marine. Pretty expensive army I'd say.

This message was edited by AznLiquid on Apr 02 2008.

But that's just a gas refinery in ARIZONA.
What about the CHEAPEST gas refinery in the world?

Or the most expensive?

The value of a mineral can change -_-

LOL.
I just read the whole site, and it made me lol!

quote Ch Ri S

But that's just a gas refinery in ARIZONA.
What about the CHEAPEST gas refinery in the world?

Or the most expensive?

The value of a mineral can change -_-

It's reasonable to compare the price to the American dollar with an American refinery no?

The methodologies on some of those are hilarious. The Bioshock 'Adam' is gretest of them all. Although the one saying that a human life is worth 3.7mil according to some health agency is great also.

Yeah, basically, Mario is a huge baller.

Haha girls love Mario...although Sonic is up there too with his gold rings and Emeralds

u guys have gotta be kinding with this thread

LOL! That Mario one is hilarious. The SC one was good too. However, maybe the Vespene gas refineries in Starcraft are on sale or something.

I realize this is a joke, but even so this is assuming a lot.

A marine is fifty minerals. A modern soldier costs $10k to arm. So each mineral is $200 by that. Obviously the soldiers wouldn't be armed the same way, but neither would the refineries be built in the same way.

[size=1][color=#666666]This message was edited by Nath on Mar 24 2009.

Marines would be sooooooo expensive.

Specially with shields. But the Terran could afford it.

They control multiple worlds, and im sure that the government owns everything military related.

they obviously aren't taking inflation into account. how many trillions of dollars worth of minerals are in a single mineral patch?

That's dumb. That's a modern gas refinery. Remember that this is the 26th century where making stuff would be much easier than now with advancing technologies.

........ So how much is Vespene worth?

Haha, this discussion is awesomely ridiculous, and not the other way around.

The list gave me a solid laugh, and I'm glad people can still make some good humor out of games without taking things too personally.