Is Weapon Upgrade from Ancient Ruins a bit overpowered and unrealistic?

[BlackWizard]

Weapons upgrades can be quite ridiculous sometimes, but these situations are rare. Getting a Pictish warrior or Hoplite on T5 is very powerful, though not game-breaking. But I've had games where I have a pikeman before T20 because of two weapons upgrade huts in a row. Still, even in a case like that, there's not a whole lot I can do with one pikeman other than clear barb huts. On his own he's not really a threat to anyone.

Do you play Vanilla? I think this was patched out on gods and king and brave new world and one unit can only receive one upgrade

 

[noto2]

No I play a heavily modded BNW, but the incident I'm talking about happened a very long time ago, it could have been on vanilla.

 

[Art Morte]

lol, this thread reminded me of one of my most memorable Civ5 moments. Archipelago map and there were some tiny islands with ancient ruins here and there, so I went to gather them. My unit got three upgrades from, I think, four ruins and I ended up with an Infantry unit when most still had only swordsmen. I went on to conquer one AI civ almost completely with that single infantry unit.

 

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I have never, ever had even two successive weapons upgrades for one unit from ruins. What map types are you all playing?

 

[Equilin]

I have never, ever had even two successive weapons upgrades for one unit from ruins. What map types are you all playing?

Pretty sure it was patched out long ago.
I already tried it. Used IGE and have Shoshone pathfinders collect ruins after ruins after ruins. The ones that are already upgraded can get no more upgrades now.