Custom Crosshair Utility: Cheating? Options

[Stickman]

Hi all.

I've been using a little (24k) program called cutomCrosshair to provide me with a static crosshair in COD. The program performs the software equivalent of using a marker to draw a dot in the center of your monitor screen; it takes a given bitmap and draws it on top of any other application you have running. As it's a stand-alone program that does not interect with whatever game you may be running, it is invisible to PB or any other hack detectors.

It's obviously a cobbled together utility; there's a bug that causes the windows pointer to flicker on top of the game window from time to time. Instead of tracking the bug down and fixing it, the programmer added a hotkey to toggle the visibility of the windows pointer.

The biggest drawback is that the crosshair doesn't disappear when you aim down the sight, so it can obscure your view. I get around this by using an "inverted v" crosshair, so when aiming down the sight it only covers the gun model, not the target.

My question: Is this cheating? Should I stop? Or make the program available to all? The website I got it from has since vanished.

What say you all?

This post has been edited by Stickman: 03/15/06 4:25pm

[Silver]

stick the thing I see is everyone has a computer thats what makes the game so unique. just like people, some are stronger and some run faster, some are more inclined to being sneaky and shooting. just to me its like a very small crutch I dont care if you use the program or not, or mark ur screen that ur style of play. I just know in the end that my kill was without special tactics etc. I dont see a problem with it just kinda like a trainer that people have to use... kinda like glasses of a prostetic leg. W/E floats ur boat

Bargod... I recall the conversation, its all good just think that in the long run it will hinder ur skill