Discovering gigs and side jobs - any downsides?

[Bjørn]

I'm currently driving around the map to unlock the various gigs and side jobs currently visible (the cyan and yellow symbols with an ! in them), to get the mission descriptions and such, but I plan on doing them later. It's just to get them on the mission log and know what to expect later, and plan a bit.

I wonder though, are there any downsides to doing this, please? Will some of them end up as failed because I waited too long from accepting them to completing them or something, for example?

Anyone else done it this way?

[Tactical Drongo]

the gigs are always on the map either way, afaik no mission has a time limit

it would personally annoy me to have such a cluttered log though

[Bjørn]

Thanks. Good point about the log! I'm starting to notice Good thing there are separate tabs for the gigs and main/side jobs, but I think I've unlocked enough for a while now...

Was just curious, basically, but I can wait.

I suspect it was easier to decide which ones to do before, when there were different levels in the different areas? I've been doing jobs all over the map, but I suspect they should preferably be done in the areas one by one, for best story context or something.

[wesnef]

Another thing to note, as you finish all the gigs in a particular fixer's area, they give you additional sets of them. And other side jobs will appear after certain points.

[Graf Erik]

Some of the side jobs are time critical, the yellow ones.
But only very few.

[DeadBeat]

How I do it is I wander around while waiting for a quest line. For example meet Evelyn Parker at Lizzie's between the hours of 6:00pm to 6:00am. If it's 8:00am then I just wander around the map looking for NCPD popups, gigs and random gang members that'll attack me if I go stand next to them. Once it's past 6:00pm in this particular case then I'll carry on with that mission. You can go there,stand and wait but for role playing purposes I do it like this because I can level up a bit but not to the point where I'm OP early game at least.

[Bjørn]

Thanks guys.

Originally posted by Graf Erik:

Some of the side jobs are time critical, the yellow ones.
But only very few.

Good to know! I had one, to meet the fixer (the one with the repeatable car hi-jacking missions) on a dam, where I got a text from him a little while after I accepted it, telling me to hurry, so I went to the dam shortly after, where he talked to the police guy he works with. I got a next step there, though, but wasn't planning on hurrying that one. Did a few gigs since.

I'll focus on them section by section from now, I think. Started on the last 4 from Regina now, so will complete them first.