Neat mod! From the description though it sounds like at present there's no way to actually be a gondolier. It'd be cool if you or someone else could come up with a system to do that. Not sure what implementation would be the most fun.
Yes, you become a gondolier in the name only. An honorary member of the gondoliers guild, so to speak.
There are some mods with usable boats I think, so theoretically you could spawn random NPCs near the gondola piers who will ask you to take them to one canton or another. There are many ways it can go wrong though, such as NPCs falling from your boat into water due to their idle animation, and I'm afraid its novelty will quickly wear off in any case.
I hope one day to see a Crazy Taxi: Vvardenfell mod, where you drive a skooma-drugged silt strider that plows through cliff racers while transporting impatient NPCs who demand cross-country travel in 30 seconds or less.
My concern is that it needs a considerable complexity of game mechanics and variety of content to remain engaging for more than a few minutes, and I'm not sure how it can be done in the Morrowind framework. Speed is not really a factor, and safety is out of your control.
Silt striders would work much better than gondolas since you can show use your navigation abilities, and you'd also need to use appropriate routes since strider cannnot jump or levitate over obstacles. Are there working player-operable silt strider mods? :)
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There are some mods with usable boats I think, so theoretically you could spawn random NPCs near the gondola piers who will ask you to take them to one canton or another. There are many ways it can go wrong though, such as NPCs falling from your boat into water due to their idle animation, and I'm afraid its novelty will quickly wear off in any case.
Silt striders would work much better than gondolas since you can show use your navigation abilities, and you'd also need to use appropriate routes since strider cannnot jump or levitate over obstacles. Are there working player-operable silt strider mods? :)