Forum:Skilled Carvers

Note: I'll be using Rathian as an example throughout this wish.

So you've killed Rathian, and you're waiting for her body to hit the ground and start carving. You get you 3 carves in and got 2 scales and a shell. Congrats, 15 scales, 9 shells, 2 spikes, and a ruby to go. Spamming a single monster is horribly, horribly tedious and boring. So what I'm proposing is this. There can be specialized carvers, people who carve monsters up as a living and profession, in which you can get more carves. Here's everything I've planned about it.

The Kill

A rather simple step, you kill the Rathian. BUT, rather than start tearing her flesh apart for goodies, you leave her body alone, and simply let the 1 minute past without carving her body.

The Process

After Collecting your quest rewards, you will return to *insert city/village here*, as normal. However, there is new building, a rather large one, at that. When you step into this building, there will be a counter stretching the room length, and a massive table behind it. The table will have your dead Rathian on it. Talk to the counter person, and you'll have the option to either have professional carvers carve it apart, or have its body thrown back out into the wild (if you did a multi monster hunt, the next monster you didn't carve will be placed on the table. Now you'll be taken to a screen of professional monster carvers working on the Rathian. Here's how it works.

For the first 3 carves, the carvers will charge you one set price. This is because you can naturally carve Rathian's body 3 times. The carves will charge you the set price for all of the monster's natural carves (ie; 1 price for 4 Gravios carves). After that they will can carve the Rathian some more, but they will charge you a price for each individual carve. Eventually, they'll be able to no longer carve it, and you can reap the rewards.

The Benefits

More carves, obviously. BUT, here's the extra bonus. For those first 3 carves, the ones the carvers are charging you a single price, you have an increased chance to receive rare items, even items that you can't naturally carve from Rathian's body, like a Plate. The increased rate won't be too much, maybe about 3-5%. Every carve after the first 3 will have normal item rates, and no chance for those extra items. You can also ask a carver to attempt to carve a specific item for you, like that spike you really need. This can happen only on the extra carves, and they can only TRY to get that item, but its chance of being carved goes up quite high.

The Price

I'll make this clear really fast, you're not going to make a profit from this, unless you get very lucky Being professional carvers, they need to get paid for this service. The below numbers will be the price for a low rank Rathian.

First 3 carves: I'd place an estimate about 5000z. You could profit somewhat if you sold everything in your reward box, but that's most likely defeating the purpose of collecting Rathian items, which is why you're doing this. These 3 carves will have about a 3-5% chance boost of a rarer item, including items like plates (Rubies if you're high rank), and even tails, because the carvers are just magical.

Every carve afterwards: About 2500z. You don't have to get these carves if you don't want to. I'd say that a Rathian could be carved up to an extra 4 times. Large monsters would obviously yield extra carves.

Specific item carve: 3000z. This is NOT a guaranteed item carve, it is merely an much higher chance, about 40-50% higher.

Felyne Carvers?

I was thinking that the carvers could actually be felynes that you hire. Maybe as they get better at it, they could have a slightly better chance at rare goodies, maybe give you a discount as you get friendlier with one. They could even have specialties, such as "better at carving pseudo-wyverns", or "likely to carve pelts" or something like that. I'm not entirely sure about this particular concept, though.

And that's all of it. Feedback and criticism, please.