Workaround for the Orange Sidewinder issue?

[Stealthie]

I've been buying Tritium at a busy station with an FC construction yard next to it.

Every time I jump back into SC, to fly back to my FC, I get an Orange Sidewinder error, have to quit out of the game and restart.

I realised that I'm not getting the errors when I arrive, like I sometimes do when visiting auntie Felicity.
So, why might that be?

It occured to me that I was dropping in to the station around 15km out, due to the FC construction yard being "in front" of the station, as I approach it.

After leaving the station, I tried flying away from it until I was 20km distant from it.
Jumped to SC and... No Orange Sidewinder!

Done another half-dozen trips, putting 20km between myself and the station before entering SC, with no more issues.

Give it a try.
See if it works for you.

 

[Rat Catcher]

Nice piece of research there, good sir

 

[Andro]

Will keep this in mind, thanks. If that's true then it may be an easier fix than I thought it might be.

 

[Vedmo]

When I get them, it is usually during low wake loading screen while attempting to leave a Fleet Carrier. I sometimes notice some glitchy behavior in boosting just prior to it as well. Next time I notice some glitchyness I'll cancel the jump and fly out 20km to see.

 

[Stealthie]

Will keep this in mind, thanks. If that's true then it may be an easier fix than I thought it might be.

Just a wild stab but I wonder if it's something to do with players (possibly in different instances) being "too close together" and causing problems for the game-engine?
Maybe the simplest solution to it would be to make 20km the default arrival/departure distance for stations so that players would have a better chance to fly off in different directions and not be close together when they jump to/from SC?

Course, I am a bit biased here.
I've always said that the arrival/departure distance at stations should be bigger, and the no-fire zone should be smaller, to create more of an opportunity for gameplay while approaching a station.

I promise that wasn't what I had in mind when I posted this, though.
I just figured that if I'm not getting problems on arrival, at 15km out, then maybe the same thing would work when departing.
And it does seem to.