The Double-Haunt, Revisited

aljimo wrote:

Anyway, if you have ten neighbours that always double-haunts/unhaunts, you'll lose 2 GOO for every house, and with three taps, that adds up to 6 GOO for every visit. In addition, you'll lose the 6 GOO you would have gotten, if they instead made normal hauntings. This means you effectively lose 12 GOO for each of those visits. 12 GOO times 10 neighbours, equals 120 GOO each day.
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But it doesn't stop there, you also have to take into consideration that if you instead had ten neighbours benefitting you all these 37 days, they would have given you 6 GOO times 10 friends = 60 GOO/per day; 60 x 37 days = 2220 GOO during the whole event.

You're triple counting here. You don't lose 6 for every double haunting, you lose 2. If someone double haunts, they take the 2 that were there and leave theirs. It has the same effect as them not visiting at all.

What?

I get 2 GOO for every haunted building, and if someone unhaunts my building, I don't get anything. That is 6 lost GOO. (You can unhaunt three buildings, hence 6 GOO). If that neighbour instead visited three unhaunted buildings, and haunted them instead of double-haunting, I would have gotten 6 GOO from them. That means, each double-haunting neighbour visiting me, in effect denies me 12 GOO I would have gotten with "beneficial" neighbours.

So where am I triple counting? You have to remember you get 2 GOO from every haunted building in your own town, but if YOU haunt unhaunted buildings in your neighbours town, you only get 1 GOO for each building. (If this is the source for the confusion?)