The Beta is LAN capable, however, there is no multiplayer spawn available.  Therefore, if you want to play it with your friends, they need to pre-order as well

What I mean by multiplayer spawn is that some older games (e.g. Total Annihilation) allowed you to only buy one copy of the game and then create up to 3 multiplayers spawns for a LAN play.  A multiplayer spawn is a version of the game that only allows the player to join and play a multiplayer LAN game, and does not enable online play or the single player game.  Unfortunately this beta of Demigod does not allow this, so the only way for you to play with one of your friends on a LAN is for your friend to per-order the game as well.

Also note, this version of the Beta does not allow online multiplayer games, emphasis on online play, LAN play, however, is allowed.

Later versions of the beta will allow online play.

well the preorder is 50$ i dont think i can get many ppl to do that with out playing it some how first.. would love to do what ever to get enough so we can get some games of demigod at thr next lan. and id be more then willing to write up an entire report of all the people there, and what they think, and suggest.

i know me and one friend are willing to preorder it, but 50$ for a beta is really up there.

so basicly the client  has to log in with key to even play?

One of the devs (I think it was Tyo, not sure) has said its fine to install several copies with the one serial for lan play - but there are a limited number of activations (don't know how many) so you aren't going to be able to have 24 people playing with only one copy - 3 or 4 maybe.

edit: I can't find the relevant post, so maybe they just said you could activate on multiple computers, not necessarily be able to play lan games with only one serial.

The number of activations is kind of secret.. but it's a high number.
You could probably do it with 2-3 copies..
I don't know how ethical it'd be.  I would call it ethical because there should be a LAN client.

But this is a VERY early beta and your lan guys might not understand that.

I'm not sure this is going to work, given the number of PCs mentioned. As long as you own all the systems, we're okay with you putting Demigod on them (assuming this is non-commercial). However, you may run into trouble trying to activate on that many systems.

Ify ou run into activation problems just buy more copies.

thats fine will play with that we are drooling at the mouth for a new game to play. well take it