The right setup

[Nautilian]

Since UT has been modified quite a bit (brightskins, custom crosshairs) it allows you to really tweak to the max. I think that one should start off looking at how their configuration is done, what I mean by this, what colour skin do you use for enemies, what model do you use? All these help boost you aim all that much, personally through all that I have tried the most popular colours are (white, green, red, pink, orange and purple). The rest IMHO are too dark. The next thing you need to look at is to make sure that your crosshair colour does not match the colour you are using, you must also make sure that you don't lose SIGH of your crosshair when trying to put it on your opponent, meaning you have to focus to regain sight of it, as this means your colour blends to well with the colour you have chosen. The next thing I would recommend it so go for the bulky skinks, by this I mean models like (Gorge, Xan, Vector... you get the flow?).

Next, try getting into the habbit of removing your weapon in view. Hide your weapon as this IMHO causes to many distractions when trying to concentrate with all the animations happening, at the end of the day, it is just EYE candy and when switching weapons with weapon view off, you still get told which weapon you are using.

The next thing I would start to push for is custom crosshairs, meaning for precision weapons use a dot and for tracking/ballistic weapons use a cross (these are just examples), you could take this further to changing the colour and size of each (Look at the crosshair packs available in previous posts - Krauzer pack with the dot is really nice).

More to come...

Naut

[Elco]

I cannot fully agree that the crosshair colour should be different from the enemy colour. My skin colour is white and my crosshair colour is yellow. I don't really see my crosshair when I track my opponent, yet, my accuracy with shock/lg as well as minigun/link is just fine.

[Nautilian]

This is more of a process of elimination Elco, basically this is for the player that does not have the aim that they would like. Hence I would start off by changing one setting and then moving on, the crosshair to enemy skin is but just an option and not a MUST. One must know that they need to play with their settings and experiment before they can settle on a definte config.

NAUT