Ron Staples

Ron Staples is a character living in the Commonwealth in 2287.

Background
Ron Staples is a traveling bartender that can be found in a random encounter. If the one settlement, or network of settlements linked by supply lines, has a population of over twenty, he can be recruited and function as a legendary trader.

Appearances
Ron Staples appears only in Fallout 4.

Bugs

 * After you assign him to a settlement, he continues to sit at the campfire rather than walking towards the settlement, and he will never show up there.


 * Possible solution is to head to the settlement where he is wanted once recruited. Then use the "prid" command in the console to select Ron, then use the function "disable", followed by "enable", then "moveto player".


 * One confirmed solution is to use the disable function on Ron at the campfire location, then fast travel away and back so as to allow another random merchant to spawn/trigger at that location. Then, re-enable Ron.  Since the new merchant will be occupying the campfire site, Ron won't be able to, and will travel to the assigned location once recruited. UPDATE: I don't know if this is actually confirmed. While this solution does work and Ron does go to your settlement and you can assign him to your restaurant, and he does become the vendor at your restaurant, but doesn't behave as a level 4 vendor. See Talk:Ron_Staples for more details. UPDATE 2: If you use above mentioned method at the campfire-site near concord and e.g. spawn him while there are some ghouls around, make sure to dispatch them fast, as Ron is not very "healthy" or durable. After the fight he sets off into concord, slowly walking past the museum of freedom (you might want to get rid of the 3 raiders infront of it) until the height of the church, then turns on his heel and walks the road where at the beginning of the concord content the deathclaw spawned (another two raiders to make sure kiss dirt before they get their fingers on poor Ron). He then proceeds walking up the hill to red rocket and finally to sanctuary (my designated destination for him), though not trespassing the bridge, if you follow him, rather heading for the river itself and the small breach in the rivermuniment east of the bridge. nonthe less, you can command him from around there, as he's in the settlements vicinity. Regarding his level 3 vs. level 4-vendor behavior, all I can verify is, that his amount of caps raises from approximately 200 to 500 caps and what he has in stock expands, no clue what his tier 4 caps/stock would be), the option to hire him persists.


 * Another issue that can occur with Ron is the inability to recruit him. When encountered as part of his random event or when "moveto"ed using console commands he won't present the player character with the option to recruit him. This can occur when the player character meets the minimum requirement for his recruitment in at least one settlement.