Hi, welcome to the game first of all and I hope you enjoy your stay.

Investing tokens especially so early would definitely give you some advantages over your opponents.

If I would be you and from own experience, rather than investing in 3,4,5 players I would rather go for 1 extremly good (AML or AMR) who would make the difference. Plus investing in one player long term will give you more benefits as you can keep it for longer.