If you want to make a fun space fighter warfare, beacause space fighter is fun, machine gun is fun and macho pilots like to impress girls of interbreedable speecies. The easiest way is to follow the rules from the good old science fiction.
1 - Placing the battelground on a non orbital situation like the protection of a space citie somewere in the vacuum. It reduce the chance of bad re-entry and the space citie is a good Mc Guffin.
2 - Fixing the maximum speed to 500 kmh.
3 - Choose a enemie who want to be hit or a very dumb and unexperiencied space pirates.
4 - Ban the vicious space ninja or your enemy list.