Just to add to SP's post.
Everyone joining since we opened POF to a certain date which we will determine later, will have a free sig for life of membership here. I'm fairly certain the cut off date will be closer to the actual release of pirates online game to open.
We have not heard any official word from Nick yet concerning free userpages, but there's a chance everyone may get one of those as well. Don't go bugging Nick for one as he hasn't told us one way or another yet and Nick is a very busy person. If everyone is going to get a free userpage as well, we'll be announcing that at a later date.
Just a reminder to everyone, we do have policy on signature sizes and I'm already starting to see too large sigs being used by some. I'm not going to send out any warnings for this at this time, but like to remind everyone of our policy instead. We do have a sig size require to help free up server space and page loading isssues on the forums.
"Signature Lengths" - Users should be considerate of other users on the forums. Excessive signatures cause the flow of the threads to be disrupted. Signature lengths over 10 text lines will be removed from user's profiles. This also applies to graphics that are larger than 500 x 200 pixels in length and width size. It doesn't matter how big the font size is as long as the total dimensions taken up by the signature text & graphic does not exceed 500 x 200 in pixel length and width.
So the total dimensions of the signature should not exceed this size:
Also, the file size of the signature should not exceed 200KB. We impose this limit as a courtesy for those on dial-up.