Missing legendary vendor/settler

[Tristesse]

So I found Ron Staples, who happens to be a legendary vendor that you can recruit to work for you in a settlement. I sent him to Starlight Drive-In, 'cause Sanctuary was full. Once I made room in Sanctuary for him, I went to pick him up only to see that he's nowhere to be found in Starlight Drive-In. I tried everything, ringing the bell, the command 'prid xxxxxxx' along with 'moveto player' and the command 'player.placeatme'. The later spawns him next to me but I'm unable to interact with him. He is counted in that settlement, though since it says there are 21 settlers but only 20 are present.

[Shadow]

Must be a bug reload a different save if you have to.

[Tristesse]

I'm trying to avoid that since I had overwitten the quicksave, the other save has 2-3 hours of difference.

[wordwaster]

wow. i need to find legendary vendors.

[Nirvash]

When people are sent to settlements, they do not arrive instantly. They have to actually travel there and make it. Sleep or wait for a day or 2, then install a bell in the settlement and use it. That will bring everyone in the settlement to the bell so you can see who's who.

[Tristesse]

I did try that, slept for 24h after another day of simply looking for him, but no luck.

[State Line Crosser]

if you happen to know his ref id or have a save where you can get it you can teleport to him with the console

[Shadow]

Originally posted by Roach:

I did try that, slept for 24h after another day of simply looking for him, but no luck.

Hmm I don't know if this works but if you go back to where you found him I think he might be there.

[Tristesse]

Yeah his ref id is in the Fallout wiki, as I said, one command doesn't work, as he simply seems to not exist, and the other one spawns him next to me but I can't interact with him.

[Tristesse]

Originally posted by Remus Speed:

Originally posted by Roach:

I did try that, slept for 24h after another day of simply looking for him, but no luck.

Hmm I don't know if this works but if you go back to where you found him I think he might be there.

Nope, there was another random encounter but not him.

[Mr.Hmm]

Originally posted by Roach:

Yeah his ref id is in the Fallout wiki, as I said, one command doesn't work, as he simply seems to not exist, and the other one spawns him next to me but I can't interact with him.

the command "placeatme" simply makes a copy of the npc.

[Tristesse]

Originally posted by Mr.Hmm:

Originally posted by Roach:

Yeah his ref id is in the Fallout wiki, as I said, one command doesn't work, as he simply seems to not exist, and the other one spawns him next to me but I can't interact with him.

the command "placeatme" simply makes a copy of the npc.

Yeah, I thought so, but the 'prid <id>' one doesn't work with him either. As I said, it's like he doesn't exist.

[State Line Crosser]

Originally posted by Roach:

Originally posted by Mr.Hmm:

the command "placeatme" simply makes a copy of the npc.

Yeah, I thought so, but the 'prid <id>' one doesn't work with him either. As I said, it's like he doesn't exist.

Sorry, didn't read very thoroughly.

[AVeryOddBox]

Originally posted by Roach:

I'm trying to avoid that since I had overwitten the quicksave, the other save has 2-3 hours of difference.

Lucky I had to reload but for some reason the game overwrote my saves and I lost about 24 hours....

[Tristesse]

Originally posted by KING BOX:

Originally posted by Roach:

I'm trying to avoid that since I had overwitten the quicksave, the other save has 2-3 hours of difference.

Lucky I had to reload but for some reason the game overwrote my saves and I lost about 24 hours....

Jesus. I just let it be until some mod/fix comes by.

[J.C.]

I had the same problem with Ron Staples (who is supposed to be able to be a level 4 Restaurant shopkeeper). I met him in his random event "Time to Party" in the cabin directly south of the Drumlin Diner. I have lots of connected population all over the map and a level 3 Restaurant in Sanctuary, and room there (18 settlers, Charisma of 10). So, he presented me the conversation dialog option to recruit him, so I recruited him to Sanctuary. Immediately, my settler count at Sanctuary went form 18 to 19. But he never started walking to Sanctuary. I waited days (both sleeping and actual gameplay time) and he never showed up. Then eventually my settler count dropped back down 1 to 18. So, I decided to follow the suggestion on the Fallout 4 Wiki here, http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Ron_Staples#Bugs, and went back to the site where I recruited him, and there was another random event there. Then I enabled him with the console commands "prid 00192357; enable", and he appeared in the cabin and he started walking (although he started walking south, away from Sanctuary). I then recruited him again and he turned and walked to Sanctuary. I followed him all the way there and made sure he arrived. Once he arrived he walked all the way to the middle of the town with everyone else and sat down in a chair. From the workshop menu, I was able to select him and assign him just like any other settler, and assigned him to my level 3 restaurant. (NOTE: I could assign or move him, but assigning him as a Supply/Provisioner was not an option... not that I'd ever consider doing that with a level 4 shopkeeper though). He walked over to the Restaurant and started acting like a shopkeeper would, polishing the countertop and all. However, he does not act like a level 4 shopkeeper. Even after a week of game time he still presents me the dialog with "recruit me" and he never has much caps (never more than a couple hundred) or good stuff (no legendaries or other impressive level 4 stuff) in inventory. He consistently has less caps than even my level 3 vendors do (or even the level 3 bartender that was there before I assigned Ron to the restaurant). He basically still behaves like he was when he was wandering the wasteland instead of a level 4 vendor.

Does anyone have Ron Staples successfully working as a level 4 shopkeeper? If so, do you have any idea how did you got that to happen?