I'll have to make a post later in regards to this topic because people don't seem to get it. Which player base has proven to be more solid, and where? Here, on the obvious starmaker page. Do remember RS is not out, a bunch of people is waiting for it to drop its first act, there is nothing wrong hyping the starmaker release and how great it is, but is super bias to compare a free and released game that has constant updates to a not yet released and paid game.
And as a note for the ones I've seen saying this project doesnt matter. Starmaker is done by a single person with some help here and there, and one of the reasons RS is not out is because Starmaker has received the updates since the dev wants for the payerbase to have something while waiting for the release of Eclipse.