No update on this, since Novembre 1st? I'm experiencing the same issue, the game ran before, nothing changed in my pc, and now I'm seeing this :
VERION] loading version from install dir: ./StarMade/
[VERSION] VERSION: 0.202.87
[VERSION] BUILD: 20200215_223628
checking your version 20200215_223628 against latest 20200215_223628 = 0
checking your version 20200215_223628 against latest 20200215_223628 = 0
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.RuntimeException: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[6,3]
Message: The element type "hr" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</hr>".
at org.schema.schine.tools.rss.RSSFeedParser.readFeed(RSSFeedParser.java:107)
at org.schema.game.common.api.SessionNewStyle.retrieveNews(SessionNewStyle.java:72)
at org.schema.game.common.updater.NewsRetriever.getNews(NewsRetriever.java:65)
at org.schema.game.common.updater.NewsPanel.doUpdate(NewsPanel.java:74)
at org.schema.game.common.updater.NewsPanel$2$1.run(NewsPanel.java:110)
at java.desktop/java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:313)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:770)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:721)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:715)
at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:85)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:740)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:203)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:124)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:113)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:109)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:90)
Caused by: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[6,3]
Message: The element type "hr" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</hr>".
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLStreamReaderImpl.next(XMLStreamReaderImpl.java:652)
at java.xml/com.sun.xml.internal.stream.XMLEventReaderImpl.nextEvent(XMLEventReaderImpl.java:83)
at org.schema.schine.tools.rss.RSSFeedParser.readFeed(RSSFeedParser.java:57)
... 17 more
So it seems I can't play due to a wrongly written RSS Feed? Come on, it would take 2 mins to fix it!