loftar wrote:and I'm also slightly worried about it causing an incentive to enter a thousand alts into a village just to increase the chances of being notified.
I think the sensical way to do this would be to reintroduce the concept of a chieftain and his hirdsman. Limit the number of people who can be "on the watch" by village population, authority, etc. Or just simply have a cap.
Only the Chieftain and his Hirdsman would "check for scents" with a chance to be notified.