[RPG] Do sorcery points made from converted spell slots vanish after a long rest

How to interpret the Sorcerer's Flexible Casting ability that utilizes Sorcerer Points to create Spell Slots:

"...As a bonus action on your turn..."

Which doesn't go to say that every spell ever that takes a bonus action or action on your turn can't be used out of combat, but we can assume they stress this point due to its combat applications. Creating or burning spell slots doesn't have too much out of combat usefulness. You would interpret this as a combat ability, and an out of combat utility that can be useful in certain situations.

Each Spell Slot that you are able to craft through the use of Sorcery Points takes an amount of SP only acquired once you are of sufficient level to even have that level of spell slots available to you. So while you could never have a spell slot that's beyond your ability to use at the time, its primary use is replenishing spell slots that you've cast or otherwise used up in battle (as when you burn one to gain more SP so you can put them into a Meta Magic ability). They do not roll over , as it were, as taking a long rest basically returns everything to its normal state. Extra spell slots disappear, Temporary HP disappears, and any temporary buffs or bonuses that were applied through magical means disappears; unless it has an effective duration exceeding your Long Rest period. Flexible Casting spell slots are no different.

So yes, the rules don't say anything about not being able to exceed your normal maximum allotted spell slots. Taken as written, if you wanted to burn all your SP at the beginning of a combat to gain all those extra spell slots, you could do so, but yes; they are lost on a long rest. No slot hording for you!

I hope this helped in your interpretation of the ability and the rules. I have a Sorcerer in my adventuring party and I'm kind of jealous of his raw magical power. He's a beast with those Twin Spell and Quick Spell Meta-Magic feats, and we won't even touch on Magical Missile...

The big issue with this seems to rely on being able to stockpile spell slots through short rests during downtime. Unfortunately, in the Resting rules (page 67 of the basic rules), it states:

Adventurers can take short rests in the midst of an adventuring day and a long rest to end the day.

This leads me to believe that RAW, characters cannot take short rests during Downtime days and so the theoretical character has no chance to stockpile spell slots.