Review [Issue 25] Leprotanki

[Ilia.ArchangeI 6,785]

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It's no wonder that Tanki doesn't have many fansites. Almost all the resources and information about the game are provided already via the forum or the Tanki wiki, which is a good thing of course. But still there are a couple of fansites out there that are really interesting in their nature, and among those is one called Leprotanki.
 
Contrary to some people's opinion (like my own at first), Leprotanki does not stand for Le Pro Tanki. Let's take a minute to discover the background of the name.
 
There is a large Russian exclusive collective blog called Leprosorium (a special incubation area for individuals who carry Leprosy, reflecting the questionable nature of the humor of the blog, and the personalities that frequent it). The subtitle of the blog reads "a colony of Lepers". A collective blog means that all the users contribute somehow to its content. Exclusive means that membership is invite only, and you cannot just apply if you want. From what I gather, it is a online hub for Russian speaking celebrities, big and small alike, and rumor has it even Brad Pitt has an account, though I doubt he uses it much.

 
Enough about Russian blogs, let's see what is so interesting about the site. Most of it contains what you would have expected on any other fansite, and nothing you can't find in the wiki.
 
The main menu has the following items:
 
Rating - the main page, containing the usernames of all the players entered into the system, and their rating.
Garage - all the information about the garage items, with sub-menu items such as hulls, turrets, paints, passes, supplies, etc.
Rank table - all the ranks in the game, points needed for that rank, bonus amount, and rank reward amount.
A donator's handbook - the price of all garage items and the rank at which they are available.
Museum - the stats and prices of garage items prior the re-balance.
Hide guests - shows only players who are also member of Leprotanki, limiting the list from hundreds to a few dozen.

 
The most interesting on the site, of course, is the home page - the one containing all the players and their rating. The first column is the username obviously, the second column displays the banner (and a link to the player's Leprosorium account, if he has one), the third column display the rank, and the last column displays the total experience points of the player, as well as how many points they earned in the last 24 hours.
 

Each username is clickable, and takes you to that player's personal page which contains even more interesting data. Now you may know that Tanki's player database is confidential and isn't accessible by any site or service, including Leprotanki. So in stead it cleverly uses player's banners (which are public outputs of the player database) to harvest information once a day about the player's stats.
 
On each user's page you will find the following items (note that the stats are calculated only after being added to the Lepro database. Leprotanki has no access to their history):
 
Their registration date (on Lepro)
The name of the user who added them to Lepro's database
The most experience points earned in 24 hours (and the related date)
Experience points remaining till next rank (and percentage)
Estimated time remaining till next rank (judging by recent gameplay amount)
A graph and table of experience point increase within the previous two weeks
Dates of previously gained ranks
Garage items

 
Lepro's system of reaping information from your banner is pretty simple. Every day at about the same time as server restart occurs, Lepro records all the information on your banner, which is actually hardly any info at all - your current experience points, and your currently equipped items. From these two pieces of info, Lepro calculates everything I mentioned above.
 
Since Lepro doesn't have access to the entire garage, it will only record what a player are wearing every night. So in order to display Zeus, for example, a player must leave it equipped during server restart (or at least 24 hours to be safe). And they would have to do that with every piece of equipment they want displayed on their Lepro page.
 
So all in all this isn't something absolutely necessary, neither does it help you in the game. But it is pretty awesome to be able to show your coolest garage items, or your amazing ranking speed just from a single page.
 
I don't actually know the requirements for being added into the database (aside from requesting it from a Leprotanki user), but my request to S-N-E-G (a Russian moderator and member of Leprotanki) was accepted with no question.
 
I really like the concept of this fansite, and I'm thinking of contacting the administration to make an English version running parallel to it, which I could help out with of course. What do you guys think? Interested?
 

Edited July 31, 2017 by Hexed

[ognjen556 231]

Wow, really useful. Great job!

[gazatron30 513]

I would love to have an English version. A neat idea, good article :)

[Guest Maserati]

still confused  :huh:

[Therider 2,034]

I would love to have an English version. A neat idea, good article :)

since only pro players make it that would murder the idea of being pro.. which would be saddening..

[falcosenna1 8,320]

:o i didn't even know something like this existed :o :o So nice!!

[FaaiqBilal1 795]

:o i didn't even know something like this existed :o :o So nice!!

It's strange how someone like you didn't know about lepro o.o I thought all gismos' knew about it o.o

 

Thanks for all the information on Lepro. The article was also written well. 

[BabyLou 1,881]

I'm too in it   <_< 
Nice work  ))

[Dark-Rim 183]

For estimated time until next rank, is it in minutes?

[TheLonelyEpic 212]

English yes please. Really cool arch nice job.

[Ilia.ArchangeI 6,785]

For estimated time until next rank, is it in minutes?

No, the numbers in that line are as follows:

 

60161 - points till next rank

24 - days estimated till next rank

45% - of current rank passed

2522 - average XP per day, as of the last two weeks

[mitropam 18]

Surprise. Shock. Awe.

 

Now all we need is a NecroTanki site, which'd probably list all the great old-timers.

 

Jokes apart, thanks for informing us all about such a curious piece of web endeavour. Needless to say (at my rank, i.e.), wasn't aware of it before this post.

Edited August 9, 2014 by mitropam

[Sr.I3oSS 2,546]

How do I see myself there?

[Mr.SV.ENS 738]

How do I see myself there?

You have to PM your bannercode to S-N-E-G, though he is really busy for the last few weeks (or even months) since he didn't even checked my PM yet while it was send more then a month ago.

Edited August 11, 2014 by Mr.SV.ENS

[Kotooshu 30]

I knew this site and always wanted to be in. Can you tell me where to contact to someone who can get me in? I can speak russian, so if i have to i won't have problems.

[myfeetaretired 27]

sounds great, there should definitely be an english version

[Pabloblue 21]

Yes, an English version would be great please :)

[shadewarttt 3,350]

Sounds like some hardcore coding. 

[Ilia.ArchangeI 6,785]

Sounds like some hardcore coding. 

I don't think they will have to re-code anything, just add an English interface.

[Hunter_Exacute 11]

hell yeah... that is awesome... i would love to beable to see my progress aswell 

[robbiealdo 373]

Useless , if you can't be added. Im not really interested in seeing garages of Russian buyers.

[lukey0 27,543]

Wow this leprotanki sounds interesting.

[sre123 595]

My name sint thre

[getreadytodie 20]

We should so get this!

[Gio_Control 581]

Yes, interested + thanks  for letting me know exactly what is Leprotanki