Quote: (Originally Posted by
MonkSeal)
I just want to stress more fact that Hassan gave. Those who went trough Tech-1 and Tech-2 can say how much (little) time was dedicated to ratio deco and decompression in general comparing to other great tools and techniques. It's not that it doesn't work without GUE training but it can't be performed without skills, it doesn't make sense if not combined with rock-bottom and it's definitely easier to perform within team.
yeah, for our T1, we had one evening of lectures on deco (out of a 5 day class). About 3/4 of that was on the history and evolution of deco models etc.
the res was split between looking at patterns in deco with Decoplanner, and comparing runtimes/deco times, and how you get penalized with He.
then we covered 2 techniques for calculating deco (ratio and by tweaking tables). Then the next day everyone ran the profiles the students calculated and dove (using ratio deco). I haven't yet used Decoplanner since (not to say I never will, just not needed to so far)