Field Spells/Noteriety

[archaicsubrosa77]

http://wiki.uosecondage.com/1998_Patch_Notes
1/29/98
"All field spells now flag the caster as criminal for the duration of the field."

Was this changed later?

The earlier patch said this.
1/20/98
The fire field spell now affects notoriety only with the first victim.

[Kaivan]

Although this isn't explicitly expressed in the patch notes, the behavior of field spells was changed with the introduction of the reputation system. We can get a good idea of what these consequences should look like from the demo, which is operating under the reputation system, where a player becomes criminal when an innocent player steps into the fire field, but not before. This behavior is extended to energy vortex and blade spirits in terms of their effects on player reputation with the March 19, 1999 patch which states the following:

Energy vortexes and blade spirits will function a lot like the field spells with regards to the reputation consequences. They still attack victims normally, and the caster is completly responsible for their actions. This includes being cast as a murderer should the blade spirit/ vortex attack and contribute to the death of the victim. However, merely running into a blade spirit or energy vortex will no longer be grounds for reporting the caster for murder. The caster will become criminal should someone take indirect damage from such a spell, but much like fire field, they will not be reportable for murder.

The indirect poison effects from energy vortexes and blade spirits are the effects being referenced here, and the change to the effects of these spells brings them in line with the effects that field spells produce, which are indirectly referenced in the patch.