I just visited the forums for the first time, being a long time member at Romulation. I feel the that forums look a tad... plain. Like, Craigslist for example. It'd definitely look much nicer.
No changes will be made until SMF (the guys who make the forum) releases their new theme. So it might take months, but then again, after that we'll have to actually do it, and we're not exactly without other things to do, so probably more than months.