Makes it easier to visualize where your grenade you are throwing might end up, by having something under your mini-map with a center-line. It is a simple concept but one that took me a really long time to put into a factual statement that I could believe in, which is: if you have your mini-map set to rotate, then wherever you are looking is going to be straight up on your screen from the center-point of the map. This may seem self-evident if you were to hear someone say it in those words, but not something that easy to set like that on your own. Well, I finally did set it up like that as a statement after testing it, which is if you are showing someone's dot on your mini-map, who is your enemy and you want to kill with a grenade, then you better click to throw that grenade while the enemy dot is directly above the purple dot showing your own location. Once that is established as a fact in your mind, that the map is not somehow lying about where that person is, then the next thing is to figure out when you are looking in the same direction as that hypothetical line. The purpose of this reticle is to help determine when that moment exists, where there is an alignment to where you are most likely to actually hit your target.
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Another Way to Center Your Mini-Map
If you cannot go to the edge of the world to see where the center vertical bar lines up as it pokes out over the off-world part of the map, you can use your combat feature for mouse-look, which lights up the avatar's name if you point directly at them, from the center of the sim, if someone else happens to be on the edge. If they are like 120m away, you need to be very precise in your pointing to have their name light up, and look at the bar and see if their dot lines up perfectly with the center of the vertical bar, if so, you are centered and your aiming will be right for next time you have to shoot at someone. I did this today, when someone was I think hiding under the water right at the edge of the sim so took it as an opportunity to check my map. Checking periodically is a good idea if you are in the habit of clicking on your map to cam someone or to just mark their dot, because if you do not do it just right, it will move your map.
I Use it Constantly
Well of course I designed it so you might expect for me to give a positive review of it, but this is true, that I aim with it all the time. Just watch any of my videos, especially the ones from Moonlight Pass region where I am shooting at long distances and a lot of the time cannot see who I am shooting at. I line up the point on the map for where someone is and pick an elevation for where they most likely are, and often get results.
The reason why I am posting this is to inform people who buy this, the best way to adjust it. if you are on an island region, then it is simplified by just going to an edge of the sim where it is clear to get right up on the border, and have the vertical bar in the center hang down a bit below the center of your mini-map, then go into mouse-look and see if your own purple dot is right in the center of the bar. To fine tune the position of the center mini-map dot representing your own position, it is best done by moving the mini-map, rather than the reticle. The reticle, once you initially set it, will not move unless you go into edit mode on it, so that is never going anywhere. On the other hand, the map will move all over the place, such as just trying to cam on someone or just marking someone's dot. Well, the mini-map for whatever reason is amazingly difficult to adjust. So, here is how you overcome that, take another viewer gadget like your Places window with teleport destinations on it, and adjust that. Then the mini-map will have a tendency to want to snap to the edge of the destinations window, which is very easy to precisely adjust. I have been messing around with this idea for a long time after watching a video my FoxMcTag, where some viewer he was using had a line built into his mini-map and I instantly saw how that gave him a great advantage over me. But this, what I just said, is really the most crucial bit of advice I can give anyone, and it would be a good idea to every day check to make sure your mini-map did not move.