Actually what you could do is have a night nime where your sight is much shorter but extended if you have a lot of the skill
Vision(which should be in the next game) which extendes sight line. It also works on sight penalties such as snow which we should have.
In the night you should have three options, keep walking, deep sleep which heals you but alows you to get caught aware by bandits and light sleep which heel you slower and gives you knowledge of bandits before they strike and gives you another three options. Keep sleeping, get ready to be attacked or if you have a high woodmens skill(another skill we should have)hide yourself in the surrounding territorey. If you are in a forest it will require less woodsmens skill than if you were trying to hide in a dessert.