I started playing a couple weeks ago, and this actually would have been really helpful to me. I struggled with Orison when it was dark. The key thing was to learn how to ping the area to see that shape you mentioned, kind of like a 5-legged spider. Area 18 caused some problems since the clouds were so close to the rooftops, but that became easy after about the 5th time, when I actually noticed the line of green dots rising up from it. Loreville was pretty easy with that "TEASA SPACEPORT" writing surrounding it like some kind of space crime scene. And then the New Babbage one was easy, just because it was all by itself, away from the rest of the city.
What breaks immersion a bit is how , in this age of tech that yhe SC universe occupied, onboard flight computers dont have a list of ports and directions built into them.
my only complaint is that they dont get you close to that actual space ports themselves when you quantum to them. like i get that the CITY is the main point of interest, but you have to LAND there and the marker should be closer to the spaceport so that way you can more easily find it. new babbage has always been the hardest one for me because it seems like i only manage to get there at night and so finding it is always a pain in the rear. yes i know the trick is to "look for the building with all the red lights on it" but at night they ALL have lights on them and its a pain having to fly around the entire city just to get to the other side to find the spaceport. loriville is the easiest to find, area18 is the second, orison is third simply because the clouds can kinda hid it and you have to get really close before you can even request to land, and new babbage is the hardest... for me anyways that is. if i didnt have to go to the actual spaceports to sell the RMC trust me i would only go to the space stations with my Hull A.
Still a bit silly not having any sort of indicator/beacon/direction/anything. In this era where you get a marker for a random bounty target hiding deep in a cave on some planet, or a beacon from a stranded guy on some remote moon, a spaceport does not have any mean to signal its position..? Come on...
