I know from personal experience that premade characters do not seem to have exactly the same CPs. I copied several premades into Singularity so I could use them as starting templates for NPCs for a game and the totals would usually come up slightly off from the normal totals and not by a consistent amount. That said, the totals I saw were not horribly off. This is something you fairly commonly see in games where characters are built off of a lot of points and people don't have access to software to help keep their point totals straight. As people refine a character design they make small errors (such as changing a background which bumps up a skill by 10 points but then forgetting that it only results in a 5 point increase because the skill was at the point where its costs double) that accumulate. Often in games where template characters are created the original templates are off even more because not only do the tools to check point totals not exist but often there will be small changes to rules after a particular template has been created. People may not realize the rules change affects that template and now it needs to be recalculated, so the errors increase (although it is always possible that new errors are balancing old errors and the point total is closer). So don't take my response as gospel. Certainly if someone higher up says that the CPs are deliberately non-standard for reasons of balance that is absolutely the correct answer but my guess is that the answer is that while they aren't the same CP totals they are intended to be.