Ships & Modules

There was, then CCP broke the rattelesnake and made it useless.

Rattlesnake, back when it was a split-weapon abomination was about as unremarkable as it is now. It was a raven with an extra low slot, more EHP and a 5% bonus to hybrid turret damage per level if you were daft enough to actually put turrets in the remaining 2 high slots.
CNR/RNI was still superior as it was and is cheaper, had comparable EHP and more DPS.

Since the change, Rattler is now an unwanted shield dominix - a much more defined role than before but still falls short of expectations for a pirate battleship since it has one of the lowest DPS ratings.

The problem is, CCP should not have curtailed Guristas ship's missile capabilities by reducing the number of launchers and changing the ROF/damage bonus of missiles to missile velocity.
Missile launcher slots and missile DPS bonuses should have remained post-change.

Cross your fingers that one day CCP will revisit it's gimped missile capabilities.

An 8 launcher boat other than the State Raven needs to be implemented NAO. Stop this age of missile persecution!

Nope. In the recent thread about the phantasm some CCP poster said they were fine with the rattlesnake's performance.

Sad days

it seemed interesting, at first, but it turned out to just be kinda sad. I think it could really use some extra launcher dps, if it had 6 unbonused launchers that would have been fine, or if they changed the missile velocity bonus to a damage bonus. the drone damage amps helped it a bunch. but the launchers are just annoyingly weak.