Take every note on every notice board you find?

[By-Tor And The Snow Cat]

I always try to find answers via research before I come here and bother the whole community with them, but this question in particular is turning up conflicting answers.

Some people say to leave notes on notice boards unless they specifically say that they will lead to quests. Others are saying that you should take every single notice from every notice board you find in every place, and as soon as you encounter them. What say you, fellow witchers who are also definitely far better at all of this than I am because I clearly suck and am a lowly noob trying to claw myself out of serfdom and also I am thirsty?

I also don't want my quest tab to become too cluttered, because right now the only way I've found of figuring out if quests are nearby when you're somewhere is to choose each one individually in the quests list, then change back to the world map for each one to see where it's located (if anyone knows of a better way of doing this, I would love to hear it!). But right now this clutter seems unavoidable, much like the annoyances of figuring out what ingredients junk pieces will break down into if there's no armoror/blacksmith nearby.

[Crimsomrider]

Yellow Noticeboards mean that there is a quest available to pick up as a notice.

But picking up all the others is not useless, infact I also pick up every single one. Reason to this is because then you receive the " ? " on the map, obviously it marks a random event. When you pick up those kind of notices, you usually get a message " A new location has been added to your map".

Of course, you don't have to pick them up if you want to have the element of surprise when exploring, but it's better to just pick them up so you don't miss any unmarked locations.

[By-Tor And The Snow Cat]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Sometimes the most innocent looking notice can reveal an undiscovered location (question mark) on the map. It doesn't hurt anything to click on them and take them. These are the smaller squarish notes, not the larger more rectangular ones which tend to either be official notices from the army (whichever one controls that particular area) or contracts.

They don't add anything to your journal. There's no one to speak to. No quest or contract to fail in "accepting" it. Just click on them and you lose nothing but a few fractions of a second. Taking them does absolutely no harm. Leaving them does no harm. They're added to the game for atmosphere and immersion but as I've written, sometimes they mention a village or a predicament such as posting a warning not to travel to a specific area which later turns out to be a monster nest or abandoned village.

So, pick up everything you see. You can do the contracts later on, as you wish, and the notes just might add something new to the map.

Excellent! Finally, a coherent answer. Thanks, BuzzardBee! Much appreciated :)

[jclosed]

In my experience simply reading them is enough to get that question mark, but -indeed- if you really are afraid to miss something, it does not hurt to take them.

[By-Tor And The Snow Cat]

Originally posted by Crimsomrider:

Yellow Noticeboards mean that there is a quest available to pick up as a notice.

But picking up all the others is not useless, infact I also pick up every single one. Reason to this is because then you receive the " ? " on the map, obviously it marks a random event. When you pick up those kind of notices, you usually get a message " A new location has been added to your map".

Of course, you don't have to pick them up if you want to have the element of surprise when exploring, but it's better to just pick them up so you don't miss any unmarked locations.

Man, it's remarkable just how much they've packed into this game. Even though the price f creating it was exorbitant, it's almost unbelievable that it didn't cost at least twice as much. I guess that's because it was almost exclusively (perhaps entirely so) done in Poland. I can't even imagine what the price tag would have been if it was a US-based product.