Treasure has despawned

[Jan Orwell]

Today me and two my comrades from alliance attacked this player - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=56580 . He did not have any army, quite a big bounty, weak alliance and most importantly treasure on him (Kakiemon Elephants). We got him blockaded and got ground control - clear win. We were looking forward to get the treasure. 

However, the player (after seeing that we are winning) went to vacation mode and his treasure despawned (No, it did not despawn because of time - it was spawned on 2018-07-02, therefore had 49 days of life left) I am not sure, but I think this is a not-known game mechanism in order to make treasure circulate around and not stay in an inactive nation - after  the player who holds it goes into vacation mode, it despawns. However, it is highly unfair, we were winning the war and there is no doubt we would be victorious and get the treasure (does not matter who out of us three would get it, we are from same alliance). This guy was simply afraid, went to vacation mode and we lost the treasure. I believe that this game mechanism should be changed in order to prevent such unfair things to happen. Also, I believe that we little bit deserve the treasure, as there is no doubt we would get it without this glitch.

[Alex]

That's not a bug, just the way the game is set up currently. The intention is that respawning a treasure when someone goes into Vacation Mode prevents a treasure from being "locked up" while that nation is invulnerable to new war declarations, but obviously this is an example of an unfavorable outcome as a result of the mechanic. 

I'm going to close this report since it's not a bug, but if you would like to make a suggestion for changing the mechanics behind the situation here, this is the correct forum: https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/forum/52-game-suggestions/