Why not make it that we the player have the option to kill anyone, but for the NPC the rules remain the same as in they cannot kill each other.Where`s the downside?

Cuz that would ruin a bunch of kool quests that are 100x better than killing an npc for no reason. And there are plenty of npcs to kill

So what?If u wanna do a certain quest, you dont kill the NPC`s..whats hard to get about that?But why if lets say i wanna make a good character, i have to let Riften be infested with all the scum living in it?Or why if i wanna make a evil one, i cant kill whoever i want to kill and so on?

Just takes away from the gaming experience.

You could do this in Morrowind with proper modding and yes it works nicely.

With modding? You could kill anyone you wanted in vanilla Morrowind.

Because if they were tied to a quest, I would just reload if I wound up killing them anyway.

play on pc then you can take the essential status from the npcs

i am just wondering why people complaining about such unimportant stuff, simply do not go for pc - especially when it is something that will cause a bunch of problems for beth (killing children... )