They could impliment a feature were if a waste claim is placed over a village, the village could pay tribute to the attacking village within the allotted time before it becomes active, it could force the despawn of the waste claim, and make it so the paticular village(attacking village) attached to the waste claim goes on an active cooldown were they cannot spawn another waste claim for 7 days or something.
So if you want to chain waste claim a defending village you would need multipul attacking villages, upto 7 if you intend to drain them of all silver/resources. (hard for a soloer, but with some friends / other groups is quite possible)
Its hard to put a cost onto this tribute and unsure if it would be even feasable. Could be a combination of silver and or raw / crafted materials or items randomly chosen determined on village size. The attacking village gains almost nothing of the tribute paid, so bullying villages for tribute resources is not possible, yet if you intend to eraze a village from the map it would require some extra effort yet it also gives a peacefull solution for defense, at the cost of time trying to gather the items required.
Tribute paid in City center.
This allows raiders to raid villages (if you can force it), peacefull defenders to defend without combat, and people without a village to be easy pickings still. Also should make people think more of building in groups if they wish to raid and or just play the game on a higher level than just a hermit, it also gives a dedicated hermit with a single bell no expansion SOME leway on defending even against a small group of raiders.
Just thinking out loud at what people seem to be complaining about.
EDIT: If multipul villages are under a single waste claim, If 1 of the villages pays the tribute, the village and structures inside become imminue, and ALL villages inside must pay the tribute before it is despawned. Also note, Even after the waste claim has become active and people are raiding, if the tribute is paid, there becomes a 1h timer shown on the waste claim counting down. So the raiding village would need to keep that extra close eye on the waste claim.
Meh