I.m on the early Pirate base quest for TOP brewery. I kind of mined them out... .. however noticed that when Mining the Rock around the pirate base .. my reputation continuoisly increaing albeit slowly with all but pirate factions.. .. i can understand it when mining the copper .. but mining the rock - you slowely creep up to honored with all factions (pirtates to zero) .. Basically i suspect this is an unintended consequence as there is a Lot of rock around that pirate base! ok rep increase with copper ok - as this is limited - but i do feel i am exploiting the game mining the rock... .. but wanted to see if i got them all. (no idea if this is true around all pirate bases)
Possibly because the Asteroid around the base is counted as a base as well (It is a POI building Trick, converting the whole ensemble to a base). So you rise in RP as you are actually "destroying" blocks, not mining. For now, nothing can be done here. Do not worry about that.
