Okay, thanks! And yes, I'm almost positive the default characters are from Sim State.

Alright, another dumb question...with the subneighborhood templates, there's one for U001, U002, and U003. I know that when you make a custom Uni without the templates, it gives you the sims from Sim State. Would you need to put all three of the clean templates in for this to stop?

I figured out how to do everything but this: for the subneighborhood templates, why is the file type ".7z"? I don't know how to open that, either.

Okay, I get it now. So I would need antiredundancy, notownieregen, and nodormieregen, plus the empty Pleasantview template and the one for the sub neighborhoods. I would install the templates following the directions, make the new neighborhood and subneighborhoods, and then create townies, downtownies, NPCs, dormies, etc following Jordi's tutorial.

Ha, thanks. Another person and I've been trying to figure this out. 

Ha, thanks, that answers my question. And no, I've never heard of a Marcela, either. 

If I have the base neighborhood cleared using the Pleasantview template in a new 'hood, and then I add a custom uni or downtown, could I delete the character files for both of those sub-neighborhoods? Or would I need to download the uni, nl, and ofb templates before creating the uni and downtown for a completely empty new sub-neighborhood?

Stupid question, but I can't figure out the answer. If I download SaraMK's clean Pleasantview template for custom 'hoods and follow those directions, would I still need to download the anti-regen hacks so the game doesn't create the standard townies (Goopy, Sandy, etc.)? Or would I just go ahead and create my own custom townies/downtownies (with the townie tree)?