That said, while I dislike K&R from a stylistic standpoint, if it's your standard, it's obviously what I'll use.
I guess this is what Id people use and this is how all this started...
I'll actually probably just use the suggested "indent" command in the future to take care of it for me.
I you code under emacs I can tell you which three variables to set to indent in that style. It took me some time (and costed mattn some gray hair fighting whitespace in my code) to figure out.
At such a time, could we get discussion of what effect killed civilians and surviving aliens should have on country pay so I can code that? Is there a time when this discussion can happen, or should I randomly check into IRC every day and hope that enough people will be there to discuss it?
IRC is full almost every day. The problem is you don't like those hours... I now think the "soldiers" and "scientists" fields will probably be used for deciding how many of those any happy country will grant Phalanx every quarter or so. The fact that nobody voiced their oppinions on this thread for the last few days and that nobody protested the commits already counts as a weak approval of the general concept. I think if you ask on the IRC if anybody has strong feelings or pending ideas about alienFriendly and nobody responds, you will be free to do with this stuff as you wish.
About capitals vs. borders vs. additional script flags there will be one person that will answer your call and the fight will begin, until someone older steps in and decides.
My oppinions about alienFriendly you already know, but they are not strong and I have no intensions of coding it myself, so my oppinion does not count a lot.
After seeing your patch I'm confident you don't need guidance, so just post a clean patch to be applied as a whole, or when you have SVN access, just commit things in small chunks that can be easily reversed. I invite you to IRC once more, regardless of the need to announce taking over of alienFriendly, because recent commits are often discussed on IRC. At least you should be there a short time after you commit things, to catch people asking you to revert your commit, because it breaks something for them (one my today's commits was reversed, and indeed it was erroneous, I then did it in completely diffrerent way).
So, I'll commit the rest of your huge patch, and then you can cope on your own, unless you come over to the IRC, when many friendly persons dwell. Good luck!