1) You need to buy the avatar feature first.
2) Yes everything will be unlocked in a certain order. Once you buy a feature/item/'crap' another one will be available.
Then the rest better beat him/her to it. Beside, when I say grow I'm not just takling about stats. Creature upgrades, puzzle solving, story progress, exploring etc. etc. etc.
What is the point of login in at all then. You can't use your prize when you'r offline.
Also it wouldn't be a problem if the ones participating in the lottery is the ones online for the last three/four days.
Gared you aint getting anywhere by writting with these ppl , try sending Manu a kind mail where you explain thoroughly what you think you can do for the game.
Heh, I didn't know he needed fixing
dst, most of these things have been discussed before so I suggest you search the forum if you want to read more about it.