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Well, if minerals were a currency in the real world, how much to do you think it would be worth? I think the Dollar-Mineral exchange rate would be worth 1:1000. That is 1 dollar to 1000 minerals.

1:10 conversion ratio.
Then those 10 cent candies would cost 1 mineral, the base unit of value.
And they're pretty much the cheapest things you can buy.

It could be somthing weird like 17:1.
But what would dollars to gas be?

1 cent is 2 minerals

thats means 1 dollar is 2 minerals.

or

1 cent is 100 minerals

that means 1 dollar is (Can't count, too lazy)

1000
It has nothing to do with counting, it's math.

My 1/10 cent system owns you all

You should compare the mineral cost of things in starcraf to how much those items would really cost.

Problem with that is that the costs are made the way they are mainly for balance, not realism.
EDIT: That, and we don't know how much they cost.
Remember, StarCraft takes place in the future, so we have no way of knowing how much it takes to produce a, say, Gauss Rifle for example, let alone armor, training costs, and ammo, compared to how much it would take to make the same things now.
Obviously, they would need less resources then us, because they would have more efficient methods of producing things. That, and they don't have to do any research to find out just how these things work. Can't make soemthing if you don't know how it works.
Okay, you can, but if it's complex enough, there's a very good chance it won't work.

1 mineral = 1 Diomand + 1 Ruby = ???? (How much does jewelry cost?)

Depends how pure or unpure it is.
The highest pure gold you can get and wear is 18carrot. Past that it's just mushy shiny stuff. At 18carrot an ounce would be like 2,000$

Let's put it this way.
If 50 'minerals' could make a real life marine, compare that to all the training, food, guns, etc. that it costs to 'create' a real life marine.

There's your ratio.

hmm good point that will be 50 minerals+doh how much food=about $50
the gauss rifle would be about $300 that is 350
training at about $100 that would be $450
maybe bullets $25? each. comes to OVER $425
excess cost $75.
Total of 500 dollars>50 minerals
answer is $10>1mineral
if there is any problems reply to this post and i could fix it.

That can't be down. The armor resits acid spits, flamethrowers, and grenades prepelled at them. Our armor might stop a bullet if it's not high calibur, a sniper bullet and if it hits the chest.
Other then that we humans suck.

alot.... just a crapload of alot. 20 dollaz a min maybe.

You also don't know how their economy in SC is. Sure you can compare it to a marine now, but maybe in the future they can pump them out for like a dollar.

Did you read what I posted?
We can't use that system because, as I said, SC takes place in the future.
The requirements to make a Marine are going to be different then for us, even if we were making the same kind of Marine.
Also, Blizzard chose 50 minerlas not because that's how many it would take for Terrans to make a Marine, but because it's balanced.

Okay, let's put it this way.
It's a game. None of the events in this game are possilble.

So, on that thought, it's impossible to find out the ratio.

I win.

I was talking about SEN minerals... but... continue with the discussion I guess.

Well seeing how minerals are precious resources, and they are usefull, so I would have to say something like:
1 min : 15 dollars

PRECIOUS?!
They're scattered in huge amounts all over worlds!

Impossible? How so?

And, also, the point of the topic is not to come up with a ratio of minerals to dollars that it would cost to make a Marine, but about how many minerals would convert to a dollar if we had them for some mysterious reason.

One SEN min would be like .00001 cents. You get SEN mins for freaking text... take this post for example, how much would you pay for this post? There I WIN.

Hmm you could also take into account the costs of having the server and bandwidth and stuff to keep these posts up, and use those to figure out the cost of a mineral...

If you considered Dust waiting to be compressed, then yes tehir scattered all over the world.

Nothing, its in the Garbage Fourm.

Theywould be worth 700 lbs. of APPLESAUCE ROOTBEER!!!! (eww...)

1 cent = 1 mineral
1 dollar = 100 minerals

Nobody really knows.

The chinese monkey knows all...

Real or unreal!