New save options: Empty lots & skipping CAS

I read another thread a good couple of weeks ago about something very similar. It was suggested we can make a TEMPLATE save. I decided to do this. I spent all morning long, removing the gym, night club, museum and library from WC, and replacing them with residential lots of my choosing. Then I went to NewCrest and set that up with the various venues from WC and the desert (having a brain fog moment and can't recall the name) I never use that neighborhood. Once I did that, the next day, I took the time to set up my active game save. I was going to use the brand new TEMPLATE, but it occurred to me that since I was playing rotation style with three related families, that once I moved them (even saving them to the bin to keep their current skills progress, etc., first) they would lose that all-essential familial tie, I shrugged and spent the time to set up that save, instead.

As for having to create/use another Sim, it is an enormous pain to always have to enter a new save through CAS. But, as it's been stated, you can open up the Gallery, go to your library and exchange the randomized Sim in CAS for one of your choosing. I do this quite often.