Pretty much since this site has existed, users have had the ability to gather the Case. Monitor, Mouse, and Keyboard of any one specific color (black, white, green, blue, and neon) and combine them into a fully built PC. I've always thought this feature was really cool, but....

It's also extremely useless.

And it feels like it's so close to not being useless and that's always really bugged me. I understand why it's as simple as it is right now, but I would love to see this feature expanded upon, for entertainment and/or education. To start with I would like to point out that we already have a lot of items that could be used for this, also being sold as Bits and Bytes. Items like lots of other mice, mousepads, headsets, webcams, dare I say sticks of ram? Even modems, routers, adaptars, memory sticks, floppy disks and CDs- I'm not saying everything has to be used but there's so much that it's a shame more of it isn't.

If there are ways to do it without creating a whole ton of new items spam, I would love to see more customization/personalization available in the PC building feature, in one or two ways.

And with either one of these, I think it would be really cool to reward members with an achievement, and potentially a title for creating their own computer. Perhaps something like "_ likes tech", "_ is a techie", "_ likes to build" or, maybe "_ has got the power"?

I had no idea it was possible to assemble a PC at all! I'm indifferent on the first option, but I'm quite intrigued by the second!

I wasn't even aware, we could still do that...

Throwing my two cents in--I really like the idea of finding different combinations to make certain rigs. Besides different colorways, there could be different types of computers that are more geared for basic work (like we have now), high-power gaming/streaming, or super professional work with two monitors and such. Gaming rigs could require more ram and a webcam, professional work could require an additional monitor and more RAM, etc. I know I would adore a computer that's geared for reading/copying old media, in a cyberpunk kind of way with lots of drives and wires--it'd be perfect in my pet Analog's TC.

But doing all that work for just a toy and an achievement doesn't seem like it's worth the work it'd be on the coding/art end, since it's not like there's a "toys played with" tracker in the same way we have for books and food. I guess there could be multiple achievements associated with particular PCs, like one for building a full set of them (especially if there are different color options for the same type of build, like a green gamer PC and a pink one), then having your pet play with them.

That said, it might be kind of cool to have completed PCs be wearable backgrounds that create a home office, streaming set-up, work office, or "basement weirdo" type vibe. Another idea to potentially add depth to other parts of the site would be for certain jobs at the pet job center to require equipment in order to progress, that's "attached" to an employed pet. A souped-up PC might be needed to work at SAI, and to work at Bits and Bytes a pet would need the gaming PC.

I fully recognize that even adding wearables for building PCs would be a big project in and of itself, and suddenly adding job equipment would be another kettle of fish. Still, just spitballing here for how to make PC-building have more purpose!