To get the platinum trophy I need a settlement to reach 100%. However it never rises above 85%. I have enough food, water, defense, bars, etc. I just feel I'm missing something. Any advice given would be much appreciated!

There's a guide or two floating around, to get the trophy you need to build a ton of shops as well as fill the bar and...just going to http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1574556-100-happiness-in-settlements/ for you...

One of my settlements seems to be poaching settlers from the others, greentop nursery has 29 settlers

That seems like a glitch to me. I would like to do it legitimately. Thanks though.

mines kept complaining about beds even though I filled the whole dam place with beds, I had 4 times more beds than the whole population and they kept complaining. So I stopped giving a [censored] whether or not they are happy.

The glitch is it's bugged right now, so glitching it to make it work is all we got.

Personally I don't care, I don't chase achievements in games just to win a badge, rather just have fun playing and enjoy myself.

I got this trophy completely by accident in Starlight Drive In. I just wanted to build up an actual town, I wasn't even trophy hunting yet, but here was my set up:

I have 18 settlers there, just the standard "Settler" type, not any named NPCS. I have a BUNCH of shops there. Three level 3 Clinics, Two lvl 3 Clothing shops, three lvl 3 general traders, three lvl 3 restaurants and one each of level 2 armor, weapons and trader shops. I wanted a cap generator, but hey, bonus! it also gets you this trophy ...the town is built up around the "lake" at the middle of the drive in that somehow can support a huge water purifier. So there's 40 water coming in from that. Theres a bunk house that sleeps 14 comfortably under a solid roof (this seems important for happiness) and a few other buildings that house the rest of the beds. A decent size farm sits over by the workbench manned by 4 farmers, each tending an identical plot of 3 mutfruits, 3 tato plants and 3 corn plants (yay! adhesive!) for a total of 24 food. Turrets ring the outside of the town for a total of 64 defense.

As I was setting this all up, i noticed the happiness rising at a pretty decent clip. Once everyone was moved in and assigned to a shop (happiness was just under 90 at this point), i started working on some lightbox signs for the various shops and built myself a little mansion to store my stuff...i get pretty OCD about this stuff, so i was tinkering with all that for at least 3 in-game days. By that time, the happiness was at 97%. i figured at that point i may as well just get the trophy since i was so close, so i read some guides and learned that leaving is a bad idea as your happiness goes down. I hung out with the settlers for a few more days, having drinks at the bar and shopping at their stands, which got the % up to 99, but it just wouldnt turn over to 100...i figured I'd need another shop to turn it over (as per most of the guides) so i fast traveled to sanctuary to send someone from there to the drive in to run another shop. When i showed up in sanctuary, the trophy popped. *shrugs* ok, i wont argue!

So anyway, TL:DR - this is the setup that worked for me:

4 Farmers, each tending 3 mutfruit, 3 tato, 3 corn -- 24 food

40 water from a large purifier

Level 3 Shops - 3 clinic, 3 trader, 2 clothing, 3 restaurant

Level 2 Shops - 1 weapons, 1 armor, 1 trader

18 beds, all under solid roofs

64 defense from various turrets

I accidentally got it yesterday too, using no shops and only 1 settler (Deacon)

Sounds like a kinda lame "trophy."

People are chasing it because it's a "rare" (about 0.7% of players have it).

I just feel I'm missing something. I've done everything everyone tells me and it'll get to 85 and I'll be in the settlement even if it had been going up it just immediately gets the red arrow as soon as it rolls over to 85. Do you have to finish the game siding with the minutemen? This is the last trophy i need it's so frustrating!