75million + characters seem to be averaging about 25-30billion to buy outright....might seem high, might not...to me thats just the price you gotta pay..no way can I start a fresh toon and train up to that level without spending the next 5 years..at which point those same toons will now be nealry 150million skillpoints. so If u cant beat em buy em right.

Mining/Trading up 100billion is an easily attainable goal...its just a very long grind as I figured it, like you've said you mine for an hour each day, so many times a week per month, continuing to do that will eventually allow you to hit that 100b, although realisticly its gonna take you a very very long time, better luck using this strat to build your isk capital to a certain point then heavily invest that nestegg into manufacturing or stock options from trusted corps...much faster/larger return values on some of that, but thats not to say the mindless mining grind can't bring in the same returns.

Some buddies have rented a 0.0 spot where they run nearly 24/7 mining ops..and when hostiles come into the area they bribe them off with isk..so operations nearly never stop..it just depends how you set yourself up and who you know really in game. But I mean if your not able to have fun playing the game why keep playing right.

Im also open to mining ops with anyone almost anytime...though work right now has me so busy I dont get to do much lately except log on to add more skills to the queue and read a few eve emails.

in regard to sleepers..im honestly not sure..i've read that they hit prety hard, so unless we go in with some serious skills and good ships it's probably gonna just turn into a gank fest with us being the guys getting ganked...my piloting skills are only up to a raven and that's not fully tweaked out for shield tanking or cruise missles yet.