[Fenris]

Well right now there are a couple of reasons for the signature being so small.

1. Servers, we'd like to reduce the lag of loading pages by making sure we don't have to many large images.

2. Layout, we don't have our official layout up and to be honest 300x300 probably is a little small but we don't want to risk of anything stretching the pages when we get to them. Where as the forums layout size limit will be able to support a larger size we aren't quite sure how much more.

So until we are absolutely positive as to what those dimensions will be, as well as how well our servers could handle the maximum number of random pictures in signatures (alot of people use them after all) We would rather be safe than sorry. We would feel pretty silly if our servers failed due to the issue of images. We don't want our servers to fail what so ever, but that's not as to say that it won't happen. We aren't quite sure how many users it will handle etc.

As for smilies, there will be original ones, I just haven't had time to make them with everything else.