Psion Omega: GIFT researcher will not follow correctly

[Without_Pause]

You need to lead him to the safe. Except, I can get him up the stairs, and as soon as he does, he moves forward very little and then instantly sprints back to the bottom of then stairs in near but not exactly teleport like fashion. I have led the researcher to the top of the stairs numerous times, and in a couple situations I can get him close to the next set of stairs, but he then he zooms back to the same corner at the bottom of the stairs. I can practically go step by step with him following me, and then zoom. He's off to the bottom of the stairs again. He can go up the stairs near me, and as soon as I do pretty much anything he goes walking down the stairs. I've never walked a NPC so carefully to the end point, and have them simply walk away or should I say ZOOM away. It's almost like he tries to be next to me and in the NPC's mind being next to me is being parallel to me but doing so while downstairs. But again, I can be standing back the from stairs, he goes up, pauses, and zooms back down.

[Rudra]

There are times when NPCs that are following you will suddenly just make a break for it and go running back the way they came. It is usually a sign of high latency or unstable internet connection, whether at your end, the server's end, or somewhere in between. Normally, when the NPC loses you or the game loses track of the NPC, they go back to the previous path marker and then resume moving towards you. On really bad occasions, that last path marker can be back a few rooms, at which point the NPC loses you and you have to go get him/her and resume leading them. This can be repeated aggravatingly depending on what is going on with your connection, the game's connection, or the game itself if it is under a heavy load..