Avenger's an awesome ship, too bad it's currently broken in a couple of ways, and the next patch fixes those things.. and breaks some others. Will be great when it's working properly, though.
Oh yes! I really like it ... i love the crawling space they added back then
i can even ignore the gimped main thruster section at times :s Yet, I hope they wont tune it down much more ... now, after shrinking the main canon size quite a bit :s
In my paranoid brain section, I sometimes think that they believe to have "sold it to cheap" at the start and want to nerf it down to hell now :S ... because it was simply perfect - in terms of balance for a cheap starter ship ... it has(had) firepower to deal with higher level threads, enhanced armor, is capable of going high speed (with an "greater than expected main thruster") and even has a huge room ... usable for anything .. from a med bay, a prisoner transport, explorer living space up to a cargo space, for trading a nice amount of goods ... and not to forget the funny, rugged space-planeshape ... srsly, design-wise im all Aegis Dynamics fanboy
What i hope for is, that they really add modules for all kinds of functionalities ... for as many as possible ships ...
On the other hand, i cant really play the game right now anyways :[ not before i built up my new PC rig ... which i have to get piece by piece and pray to find some good parts on the scrap yard ... so, its okay with me, that the Avenger is broken atm ;3