I'd take the zeus cl tbh. More cargo space
Evo Replication Layer test underway as of 25 minutes ago, testing 1 DGS per shard at the moment, tomorrow it may be scaled up to more servers per shard. Could well be that we get static meshing very soon and dynamic meshing shortly after as the ability to scale it depends entirely on getting step 1 working fine, plugging in more servers should be relatively straight forward.
Jumping into the middle of this so might have the wrong end of the stick/not sure if your last bit is sarcasm but there are several games online which maintain a persistent game state such as Eve Online.
This is my problem too, I game from the sofa (not to the TV) only to be "sociable" with the wife. Currently using a lap pad thingy (has a fixed cushion underneath) but obviously I can't use the sticks. I've been looking at the Couchmaster but I think its still a little too small to hold a laptop, mouse and sticks. Been thinking of getting one of those z frame or c frame bed desks, you can get them 1.2m wide so should be wide enough and even if they aren't I would probable get those clamp on mouse pad extensions or even get official joystick desk mounts (but not entirely sure if they'd fully fit tbh). If I want to use my sticks I usually just play with the laptop on my desk in my office but then the wife gets the hump as I'm "ignoring" her lol. I can easily sink 4 or 5 hours on a Saturday/Sunday playing SC.
Exactly how I use to do them, still hated it but I sometimes need a lot of desk space so I was forever having to move them around, under etc.I have a USB hub stuck under my desk for peripherals and then I've secured the cables running underneath the desk, my sticks are mounted on monstertech mounts which I just slide into place when I want to use them, keeps the actual desk tidy and cable clutter free.