So balance issues aside, there's a completely seperate improvement that should be made to the spire: it needs to offset the downtime from tourneys.
Some people like the essence of the spire, if not the balance, the same way they like tourney. So I don't get why you didn't take advantage of that and make it available during the time tourney isn't. Right now it's offline Friday morning to Sunday morning for me, why not make it offline Tuesday morning when tourney starts and pop back up Thursday morning?
From a business perspective it's even more strange: you're basically sitting there, with your shop up and running, but you close down your ice cream machine for maintenance during the busiest hours instead of the slowest. Let's say tourneys are your hot apple pies, you've got customers that come in for something sweet, they don't care which, and those are the only 2 sweets you offer. You really should make sure at least one of them is available at all times.