Installing the Alpha on multiple machines?

If I installed it on a friends machine when I went round his house to show him the goodies logged in and played it, then went back home and played it on my PC at home would the server ban hammer me? Also does the e-mail that is sent/terms and conditions stipulate you are not to do this?

Didn't see any signs of it anywhere and would be very surprised to see it ban anyone just from installing it on multiple machines.

It's only a tiny step away from sharing accounts though which I am pretty sure they will not be a fan of. Also I am certain my friends will try and get me to do so as well.

The game is stated to be drm free, so they seem to accept that fighting pirates is wasted time.

EDIT:
I installed the launcher in a vm (it refuses to launch multiple time on a single machine) and logged in. Then I started the launcher on my normal system and logged in. Both launchers worked well, no automatic banhammer whatsoever.

I would have expected it to tell me: "Sorry you are logged in already", but it seems that at least the launcher can be used on multiple machines with the same login at the same time.
I dunno how the game itself handles it, since I cannot run PA in the VM, but if the game allows multiple logins form the same account at the same time Uber might want to change that.

Well, that tiny step is them using it on the regular basis coinciding with you.

As long as you don't do that, I don't see why you couldn't bring it to a friends house and play it with them, and then bring it home and play it without them. As long as they don't continue using it all the time without you without paying.

While that is what would happen there is no real way to tell other than my word and on the off chance someone tired to connect to my account when I was already in it from a different ip.

Just wondering if they had mentioned anything about it or had any real stance on it.

I guess you could argue that as it only allows one person access and there is no NDA then there should be no real reason why not. But I would like to know if all the text I don't read expressly prohibits this or not.

I don't want Garat and Neutrino turning up to my house and giving me the people elbow as a result.

Well it is an Alpha - they might not have got that far coding the dual login detection - but it might well become a priority once they see this Topic.

In regards to dual installs, I doubt they would mind, since right now an external server is required to play so they're more likely to worry about sharing accounts. Also shouldn't I be allow to install on more than one of my own machines? What about a dual boot? Would Linux/windows install be consider a different machine? It is for Steam.

I think it's not problem at all if you stay in some "fair use" limits, e.g not trying to play from multiple places with one account. Uber need to pay for servers which use lot of cpu and ram (compared to any other game), so don't let them reason to restrict your access.

Would be interesting to play as 2 commanders in a 4 player ffa.

Can only imagine bad things would happen if you tried to play with yourself so to speak, guess it will get changed fairly quickly.

I think it's will be fair to let you play only on one server at time. Because server cost took money from actual development.

But "login" is required to update the game, so I think it's will be bad to deny multiple logins. Because when Linux version of game will be available I want to help developers and check it on lot of different configurations.

While it might not block it I would think it would be easy to remember such a occurrence. There maybe a few users that have legit needs to play from two computers but not simultanouesly. Ranking an extended amount of such occurrences would be hard to justify with legit needs. And illegit users trying to avoid login conflicts would form a non-trivial inconvinience to enjoy the game.