by bonnyaclyde
This game just happened the day before yesterday. So I don't think it was mentioned before.As far as investing I got the ability to get research points equal to points so I got an investment chip before anyone else then I think 2 or 3 other people got one. (It was a seven player game)
But the one time 4 other players got on a 5 green bean blend I immediately removed the blend with a card putting myself back in best blend.
For research I increased growing to max so I got lots of research when I did that. I got one investment chip and I took cards for the rest of the game.
In my first game with 4 players we had a good idea what color other players had but with 7 it made it very difficult to do that and no one did. I think what I did would be more quickly recognized and blocked with fewer players.