As long as I stay away from ORBIS STARPORTS I tend to run without crashing, although I always take care to avoid doing too much boosting on approach with any larger stations, the ORBIS will crash on you even if you do a slow approach much of the time.
Sucks because I am doing RARE ITEM trading and so many of the best rare items are found at ORBIS STARPORTS, and I have been forced to avoid those unless I want to be crashing all the time.
Sure hope the new build isn't too far off now. I have had it with this DOG we have been forced to play for going on THREE WEEKS!

Definitely the most infrequent of update schedules I have seen in a Beta Test program for console that I can remember, and I have done PLENTY. Normally when a build gets released that has as many stability problems as this thing has, there is a 1-3 day wait for a maintenance release to at least deal with some of those problems. Not with ED! Even as the evidence grew and grew as to how truly terrible this build was, NOTHING!
And you can't blame it all on the XBL approval process. I have beta tested other XBL games in the past where we would get a maintenance update no later than 5 days after receiving a bad/game breaking update.
P.S. I am not anywhere close to the starter area either. I do most of my work out in the area of Fujin, Momus Reach, Leesti, Lave, Gaewen, Xihe, Tiolce.