Climb vs conventional, definitive guidelines anyone?

Is this “adaptive”? - it looks more like what @Julien described as " deep & narrow cuts: theoretically you could use CarbideCreate to “simulate” e.g. helical ramping, by first cutting the center part of a pocket using conservative DOC (<1D), and then creating a second toolpath that would clear the rest of the pocket at high DOC / small WOC" than “trochoidal”.