I can confirm that liquids don't flow towards the extraction point, but towards the highest concentration points of the field. (But I see that we already discussed this on page 1.)

However our intention was that an energy well should be able to completely extract a whole field without rebuilding it so we have to look into that.

Sorry my bad....

I have had this issue as well and have ticketed it with no response.  Here is a screenshot of the well.  Notice the output is 720 AP instead of the 3000, and the well was placed 2 days ago.  Also, my base has 4 reactor that all draw in the 1500-2000 per tick so that is not the issue.

http://i.imgur.com/dClN0dt.jpg

I think its needed at least double the enery field energy contains, 10 day would be nice to rebuild the whole process not in days. After solved the "amoba" issue of the field.

In former times  (~3 years ago) it was quite common for me when mining liquid to reach a point where the tile was empty, but not the field, as I didn't selected the tile to which the liquid flowed in that time.

Today when mining a liquid field until the tile is depleted I can verify with 2 directional scans, that I really emptied the last tile.
This is for me always the case when emptying a liquid mine field, even if I select a tile at the border for any reason.

I do this ~2 a month with large fields and more often with smaller fields  and cannot remember the last 18 months to have a tile for Epitron, Liquizit or Hdt emptied, but still liquid remains in the field.

How can this happen by chance to 100%, if the liquids always flow to highest concentration point while I didn't care about selecting this point.

The point of energy wells was to make owning a single base easy for an active corporation, owning multiple bases harder work and for low numbers of people owning multiple bases it made it a pita. It seems like it's working as intended.

The other point of them was to generate PvP content on gamma by making them able to be destroyed by roaming gangs forcing a defender to come away from their turrets. I think that's partial there but they need to remove the reinforce cycle and triple the hit points.

Anni thanks for trolling the thread.  I'm glad we want to see more tedious base micromanagement for owning and sustaining ONE base.  Since the rewards of gamma are so awesome!

You said in a four day period you have to move the energy well three times. That means with three guys your doing half an hour every for days each. How is that not low level work?

As for not creating PvP opportunities? I would argue that probes are one of the only pvp generators in the game alongside saps. Other than those two it's just looking for people doing PVE on beta which doesn't happen after the mission change much at all. You'd have an easier time getting bobo a job.

I don't doubt it's tedious but it's not broken.

5 different tiles.

@DevZoom

http://i.imgur.com/8GfPixZ.jpg

shows the issue....I increased the intensity so you could see it but I placed this tower at the richest site.......this is a shot 2 days later

What you want is for one guy to be able to keep a fully functional gamma base going doing work once every two or three days. Thats not what Gamma is supposed to be. It was specifically designed to be the opposite so that if you had ten guys you would have a hard time controlling a full base on every gamma. It's supposed to prevent the thing your asking for - semi afk gamma play and defence. If you don't like that, play more.