Nope, neuter is used with quantities ("У нас было две собаки/будет много журналов") or non-nouns ("Завтра будет холодно")
For normal plurals it is plural.
Of course, as you become better at Russian, you'll encounter ambiguous cases dealing with "groups" that can be viewed as a whole or as a number of individuals. Gramota.ru has a good article on the topic — you'll be able to use it then.
One such "advanced" example is something like "The majority of students were Americans"="Большинство студентов были американцами" (as you can see, it would not make sense to use singular "американец" here, so the verb follows, though, here it is just a recommendation). Basically, some advice dealing with such structure centers around how easy it would be to parse the sentence for a reader, and how logical it sounds.