supremacy of bolts over beams ...

[rstaats10]

Bolts are the weapon type for the point defense cannons. At short range they are more accurate. If you make them long range they miss quite a bit. Bolts are not intercepted by Point Defense Cannons unless you mod to allow for bolt target. However I think by doing this then you would cause a fire issue everytime a bolt wep is fired even by you own ship. This is my experience with this.

Beams are meant to miss sometimes (reason for attack and defense ratings)