My FC is a large community but we are are not super wealthy by any means! We have been working for 2 months for donations and have not enough to even afford a small plot on our server in the gutter...

You said Auction, this is not a reverse auction. In an auction the price goes up, not down. At least with an regular auction would be based on what an individual FC can afford an not because we have RMT problems. Regardless of the decay, these amounts are still only benefiting the wealthiest FC's and put those others out of the running for quite some time.

We will continue to be farming and building up our banks in order to buy the property we desire and we hope that because of the time and effort it takes, that we may be able. But lets see how easy that will be now that food effects stay up after death... Food was the only sustaining money maker in our economy and now your taking that away too. So much to look forward too...