Well, I haven't had any spiky distortions from the models rigged with ATU, although the old Ghostbuster jumpsuit suffered from spikiness and it was auto-rigged with OBJ-CR2.  I'm hoping the new jumpsuit will fare better, since it has space between the thighs at the crotch.  Then again, the old jumpsuit even produced spikes (upon posing) at the calf area.

     I did notice -with some irritation- that the ATU-rigged beam had lots of new UV seams in weird places.  The concentric seams I could understand -if not like- but why did new UV seams appear along lengthwise edges?   Puzzling.

     You should be fine with a few 15-section pieces.  My beam assembly was two 128-section figures, one conformed to the other.

Poser 12, in feet.  

OSes:  Win7Prox64, Win7Ultx64

Silo Pro 2.5.6 64bit, Vue Infinite 2014.7, Genetica 4.0 Studio, UV Mapper Pro, UV Layout Pro, PhotoImpact X3, GIF Animator 5