When I started this game a few months back, the information regarding doing optional Squad Upgrades from here on the wiki and from other various sources tended to lean towards "negative ghost rider the pattern is full" Now, I'm reading from snippets here and there that the horrendous calculations involved with determining difficulty for the Spire and Tournaments has excluded the Squad Upgrades from it and it no longer matters?
So which is it? Is it safe to go back and do these optional upgrades and if so, do you actually get an advantage from them with these events?
If you read that a few month back, you read nonsense
The change happened half a year ago.
Until that point tournaments depended on your own SS, the higher SS the more enemies you faced.
Since the change tournaments are completely independent from SS.
Also the spire follows the same basic formula as the new tourney (and did so since it began a year and a half ago).
The question if Inno will undo those changes and go back to the old system you have to answer for yourself. If you ask me, there is a very close to 0% chance of that happening. The new tourneys are here to stay. Hopefully they will develop te new system further, but that´s a different question. The SS dependence of the tourneys was possibly the biggest source of complaints in the game up to the change, so Inno has nothing to gain from going back anyway. By now so many more people benefit from the new tourneys than suffer from it that the outcry will be far bigger if they change back than it is right now about how bad the new tourneys are lol. The only argument for a change back is: It´s Inno, they do not always do what makes sense...
@FieryArien summed up the pros (and the con) of SS since the change.
I personally activated all the optional SS upgrades the instant the testing phase was over and I was sure the new tourneys would stay. I have not regretted it yet
I am still debating selling a few more AWs, because Inno has hinted at making adjustments to the AW part of the formula. But the longer they take with that the more AWs I sell