as i can remember from the old S4K then you could give players rank, so new players could be on trial before they had the right to do more in there alliance

Yes but as it is now, there are no rank feature implemented and everyone can see the online status of the alliance members.

yes but it would be great if we could do that. because not all players are trusted enough to see that

yes. makes sense.

Why to have people in alliance that you dont trust? Just for points?
One of the best things here is that you made yourself an alliance of trusty people, and then there is allways possibility that you accept a spy if you want new players, that gives the charm..
I would like ranks, capo-vicecapo-member just for hierarchy and making immportant decisions, but removing online times in alliance is pretty dumb idea.

I think it would be good idea to have some limits for new members to check out them if you dont know them

This feature is planned for the Alliance rework.
Unfortunatly as you know, ravenc does not have much spare time and there are more important things before this.
Hopefully we will have it soon, since for example in Stiddari its really usefull because there are many users.

It would be good to improve old Vendettas rank system and set 3 basic ranks, Capo; Vice-Capo & Member and give th posibilitie to create your own ranks and apply what they can do.

If there are more feature updates that will give us more alliance features it could be interesting

I greatly appreciate the reality you point to in the beginning of your post Stv3n, but I would argue that the most important time in this games lifespan is already happening, and that the establishment of alliance controls will both affect the activity of current players, and be a major factor in the goal of securing more new players. It will only become more and more significant as we enter the beginning stages of wars in this server soon, and alliances will want to be seriously establishing themselves.

Is there an update from RavenC about the timeline of the planned updates?

I don't mean to sound impatient, I know RavenC will be busy, but as Demo mentioned in a previous thread it's nice to know the plans for the game and maybe even a rough timescale of when things will be added.