Not A Bug Field spells not hitting players

[Iagopeppe]

So, I was going to train spell resist by casting fire field on the ground and walking over it. The problem is that I hit my second character (the one I want to raise resist spells), so I became criminal, and I cast fire field on him, but it didnt damage him. I tried with poison field and paralyze field too. It seems only when I made my second character criminal that I managed make the fields work. Now I wonder if blue characters arent affected by fields or if it is a bug. None of the characters were in a guild, and I did this at felucca facet, away from guards obviously.

P.S : when my second char was criminal and I managed to damage him with fire field, the spell resist didnt raise. I checked the skill cap, but it still didnt raise. I tried casting weaken, clumsy and magic arrow at him, but even so it wasnt raising.
Thanks for your attention.

 

[Dan]

Thanks for this report. I will work on testing this.

 

[Dan]

So this has been confirmed: On modern UO fields and their effects are all notoriety driven.

When in direct combat your fields will harm your opponents but will not harm you.

Your damaging fields, as a blue, will only harm those who have bad notoriety (IE: criminal and murderer)

Your fields will also not hurt your guildmates.

Marking this as Not A Bug.