C++ [Nostalrius/Sabrehaven] Magic fields don't always do collision damage

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Expected behavior: anytime a player steps onto a magic field, they are supposed to take instant damage and there should be an effect, and the condition starts over.
Actual behavior: If a player is logged out with a condition (kicked, xlog, /r), when they log back in, they will no longer take instant damage from stepping on magic fields
Patterns: If this 'bug' occurs, the player can use 'exana pox' and then fields will start doing instant damage again.
Errors?: no errors in console.
Changes: no changes to the poison field item, no changes to movements, no changes to sources.

My attempt to trace the problem through code:
the field item ID itself looks like all other fields, has a type, count, and damage which is the instant damage:

TypeID      = 2121
Name        = "poison gas"
Flags       = {CollisionEvent,Unmove,Avoid,MagicField,Expire}
Attributes  = {AvoidDamageTypes=POISON,Brightness=2,LightColor=104,ExpireTarget=0,TotalExpireTime=250}
MagicField  = {Type=POISON,Count=100,Damage=5}

When a player steps on it, it uses the function "onStepInField"

<movevent event="StepIn" itemid="2121"  function="onStepInField" />

Movements.cpp tells us where to look for the onStepInField function:

bool MoveEvent::loadFunction(const pugi::xml_attribute& attr)
{
    const char* functionName = attr.as_string();
    if (strcasecmp(functionName, "onstepinfield") == 0) {
        stepFunction = StepInField;
//break
uint32_t MoveEvent::StepInField(Creature* creature, Item* item, const Position&)
{
    MagicField* field = item->getMagicField();
    if (field) {
        field->onStepInField(creature);
        return 1;
    }

    return LUA_ERROR_ITEM_NOT_FOUND;
}

This function is in combat.cpp, line 1889. For the sake of not making this so long I wont post the whole thing but you can see that all it does is add the condition to the player.

The function for AddCondition in condition.cpp looks like this:

void ConditionDamage::addCondition(Creature* creature, const Condition* addCondition)
{
    if (addCondition->getType() != conditionType) {
        return;
    }

    const ConditionDamage& conditionDamage = static_cast<const ConditionDamage&>(*addCondition);

    if (hit_damage) {
        doDamage(creature, -conditionDamage.hit_damage); //this is where the player should take instant damage from
    }

    if (!updateCondition(addCondition)) {
        return;
    }

    owner = conditionDamage.owner;
    cycle = conditionDamage.cycle;
    count = conditionDamage.count;
    max_count = conditionDamage.max_count;
}

EDIT---I was wrong, the problem occurs for ALL magic fields. Edited post