piecepack modification discussion - tiles

["odbo255" <odbo255@...>]

There was a discussion a while back about suit location on tiles and 
James  (I believe) had indicated that the suit was located in the 
upper left corner to serve as a direction pointer.

I've thought about this some and have a suggestion based on this line 
of thinking. I agree that the suit and number serves as a direction 
indicator for 'up' (even for the null where 'up' can be derived based 
on the location of the suit). Currently the suit is oriented so that 
it 'points up' - I suggest leaving the suit in its current location 
but adjusting its orientation counter clockwise by 45 degrees so that 
it points 'towards' the upper left-hand corner, thus providing a much 
more natural 'corner' indicator as well.

With this revision tiles can have either a directional axis based on 
a square orientation or diamond orientation or both!

Good idea, Bad? Variations?