Has anyone been able to get Ron Staples to go to their settlements?

[John Faraday]

Everytime I try to recruit him and select where I want him to go the game acts like I never even spoke to him. I've tried a number of fixes but to no avail.

[Mr. Self Destruct]

Most of the special tier 4 traders are bugged. I've tried to get Ron, Tina Deluca, Holt, and Trader Rylee to go to my settlements and they never do. Like you said the dialogue goes through, then they act like I never asked them about it. The only way I got Trader Rylee to work was spawning her right in my settlement using the console. But she'll disappear again as soon as I leave the settlement.

[J.C.]

I had the same problem. 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?

[Renovartio]

so has anyone heard of a patch to fix level 4 vendors?

Vault-Tec Rep is really the only recruitable vendor at this point. Funny, because although he acts like a level 4. He's really just a level 3.

I also tried recruiting Ron but he never showed up. In my Pip-Boy map it says there's a +1 settler, but he's never there.

I don't want to attempt to recruit any of the other vendors if they're all bugged. (Even Tina was bugged the first time. I haven't tried again).

Moving them via console commands doesn't work either. Ron will stil act like he's a roaming vendor. Even though he's at the bar.