are these regular updates annoying you?

Yes.  As a consumer, I demand unreliable, tardy service!  

Obviously I am kidding and the regular updates are awesome  Considering that they take hardly any time to download, I see no downsides with the present method.  Rapid, responsive updating also means that you guys can react quickly in case one patch inadvertently creates additional issues.  

Love the updates!

If you're willing to release them, I'm willing to play them!

I love the rapid updates - i especially love he littel things as well. I can't tell you how much i appreciate having the spells cast on the wrold map give you some feedback.

Fishing for compliments, aren't you? Well, you've certainly earned them!

Thanks for the update!

The game runs MUCH better on my XP laptop.  It was already running fine on my Win7 PC.  But I am also very, very happy about the balance updates and the fixes that 1.2 delivers. 

As for your question, as a programmer, I believe in large updates.  As a gaming customer, I very much prefer the way you're doing them.

Yes it's very annoying, that I don't have enough free time right now to play the game as much as I want! 

Update away. Only dilemma is whether I can finish a game inbetween the updates.

The time between update 1.00, 1.01 and 1.02 have been just perfect, to be honest any quicker than that is ok, but gets painful with mods.
Talking about features, come on and fïx those bugs instead

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

For this kind of game where you not only have bugs to fix and performance to improve but also a complex balance and AI to improve, quick iterations with a lot of feedback seems to be the way to go.

Also it's good to remind regularly to your customer that you care about them and what they think. Fickle creatures those customers, they need a lot of attention 

We get occasional emails to support complaining that we need to quit "spamming" updates and instead wait until they're bigger and then release them. It's hard to know how representative that is.

Well, you really need to balance how much a performance increase/ content increase/ bug squashing is done per release, as you already know. The changes that you have made since version 1 have made a huge difference in the smoothness of gameplay. You created the engine from scratch and now your getting a chance to really flex your muscles with it. There are going to be bumps in road and things you didn't originally think about that now come to your attention.

I will again tout the little change that has a big impact for me. The ability to have some spell interaction when you cast it in the world map. When you cast destiny's insight on your champion you now know immediately what bonus he received. You don't have to open up the character sheet, write down your statistics, close down the sheet, open your spellbook, cast the spell, open up the sheet again and look at every stat to compare what you have written down. When you do this 8 times in a row it gets very frustrating and time consuming.

You have a new, stable platform that people want to mod and make changes. Sometimes they come up with new ideas that you guys never thought of, and you decide they are in fact a neat idea, and you want to expand on it. So you add new code and streamline the engine even further. You are at a place now where lots of little things will have a big impact improving the game engine. Sometime ai behaviour is highlighted to show an unexpected flaw, sometimes it's a quick fix, other times you have to gut and rewrite portions to fix a mistake. These are valuable. People don't have to download every single patch when they arrive. There are game companies i would kill people for to get the kind of patching dedication you guys are putting into this.

I tend to agree with this viewpoint.  More precisely, I actually do think that the recent rate of updates (intervals between 1.0, 1.01, and 1.02) have been about right.       

Having any less time between updates would begin to seem inefficient, and perhaps slightly annoying, to me personally, because of the impact on my ongoing Game-play.  However, it also appears to me that there is a pretty strong concensus among respondents to this thread that most folks want updates quickly.  They don't want you to "sit" on features and fixes, for roll-up into  *BIG*  updates.

Keep walking that tightrope, guys ...  and thanks for asking. 

Isn't rapid iteration the way to do things these days?

Love the updates, especially now that I (seemingly) don't have to start an all-new game just to get an improved feature. If you can keep that going, that would rock.

I'd have to say I'm so thoroughly impressed with how the game engine continues to evolve. Performance efficiencies, new features, etc. really show how the new engine is really capable as an engine for future game development (hopefully).

On my wish list is some continued improvements in pathfinding, like displaying # of turns to a resource or allowing monster AI to avoid destroying a city because it's on the way. I'd also love to see some of the End Turn graphical jarring removed (at times it's like the game lurches into action and then stops suddenly); the cloth map does a better job of that than the 3D version.

Keep 'em coming!