So I finally found Scribe the special armor vendor you can recruit for your settlement. I speak to him and send him to starlight drive in and make note that the population size has increased by one person confirming that he is headed there. Well after I clear out the nearby building next to where I found him I decide its time to heab back to base and assign him as the armor vendor but there is a huge problem, I can not find him anywhere. Its been almost 6 hours since I found him and sent him to starlight but he has not shown up at my settlement. I have triple checked my population count and I am indeed missing one person. Has anyone experienced this or know how to fix it? Honestly I'm getting more and more tired of this games crap. Everyday I play this game I find that I am having to make some sort of compromise for some broken game mechanic and now its bordering on the point of me just wanting to quit all together.

It's a common problem with most random encounter special vendors unfortunately

same problem. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.

I'm moving this to the PC Hardware and Software Issues thread where you're more likely to find help, or at least make sure the right people see it (QA likely browses General Discussion, but specifically the Issues sections are where bugs will get the most attention.) If I guessed wrong and you're on PS4 or XBox One either send me a PM or report the thread and we'll get it moved to the correct subforum.

The level 4 vendors are all kind of buggy. Some of them either don't show up at your settlement despite successfully recruiting them, or simply disappear after arriving there and being assigned. I've had this issue with The Scribe and Doc Andersen in particular.

If you're on PC you can use the console to bring him directly to you.

Open the console (with the ~ key) and type "prid 0010d56d", then press enter. and then type "moveto player" and press enter, leaving off the quotes for both commands. This will move him to your location and then you should be able to assign him. There's a good chance that he'll just disappear again though, unfortunately.

Note that this same command will work with any of the characters, but you'll have to look up their individual ref id, which should be available on the Wiki page.