host (yellow 2/3 bars)

there's no reason for this.

playing default world, no caves, no mods enabled. ("steam friends only" with password) extremely good internet speeds, and a high end desktop pc in every respect. playing by myself, or with 1 friend. 99.9% of the time my scoreboard shows me at 2/3 bars yellow host.

why recently does DST have me as such a bad host? this should not be a thing. i should be 3/3 bars (green) at all times, like i was all last year through the early access. with the same pc/internet/etc. 

did something change with the game that needs adjustment to ports/firewall??

some recent patch has made hosting bad. my friend joins as client and now sometimes gets bad rubber banding and loot delay.

also:

i (rarely) sometimes also experience custom worlds with loot delay and take longer to fight enemies, etc AS HOST. ( aka "unplayable" ) ...not sure if because running caves causes this, but it really shouldn't. 

i am host, this shouldn't be a thing. how am i getting delay when i am hosting with 0 ping to myself. i should never get lag as host playing solo. where's the logic here? where's the problem? how can i fix it? is there a bottleneck to cpu/gpu/memory that would cause me to get delay as a host?? i shouldn't be hitting it. not with my pc. if the game has such requirements they should be on the steam store page.