Dumb question about bases

[JKCarrier]

Looked around the official site and couldn't find anything, so I thought I'd ask here:

What's the advantage of having a Med Bay in your supergroup headquarters, as opposed to just using the Hospital?

[DMenacer]

When you use the teleporter to go to your base, it teleports you back near your mission. When you use the teleporter to go to the hospital, you have to go all the way back to your mission from there.

[JKCarrier]

Ah, that would be useful then. Thanks!

[captainspud]

When you use the teleporter to go to your base, it teleports you back near your mission. When you use the teleporter to go to the hospital, you have to go all the way back to your mission from there.

Wha?

Last I checked, (and unless it was changed in I11) that behaviour was a glitch. It's not supposed to happen, and can't be reliably made to happen. You'll just sometimes get randomly booted from the base and dropped at your mission door.

The purpose of the med-bay is to let you respawn in the base during base raids. It also lets you pop back in-zone when you die on a mission in a zone with no hospital.

[Bugbear]

Spud is correct.  There are times when the base will drop you off near your mission door, but that is not the normal behaviour.  However, there are occasions when the spawn point for the zone is closer to your mission than the hospital, and of course, there are zones with no hospital.  In those cases, it is better to use the base.

In addition, you can buy blue and green Inspirations from the auto-doc or tree of wonders in the medbay (if your SG has one.  FR has a Tree of Wonders).  I have been told that more types of Inspirations will become available when the SG acquires more Healing badges.

You can also use the opportunity to do other things while you're in the base, such as drop off salvage or inspirations, or use an empowerement station.

However, most of the time, it is just as good or better to use the Hospital.

-BG

[JKCarrier]

Aha. Well, we'll see how much I have to work with after the prestige bonus hits. If I have enough left over after putting in a couple more teleporters, I may go ahead and stick in the med bay. Thanks for the info!

[Verfall]

In addition, you can buy blue and green Inspirations from the auto-doc or tree of wonders in the medbay (if your SG has one.  FR has a Tree of Wonders).  I have been told that more types of Inspirations will become available when the SG acquires more Healing badges.

The only other Insps bin you get is a machine that sells break frees for the third badge. The second healing badge gives you a machine that is supposed to heal more of your hp when you do use the base med bays, but it's been broken since day one. For some reason you can't actually attach it to the bays.