You realize you are the Evil Empire when ....

[KEV1NJ]

You baddie wanabes just don't get it. There is no real right or wrong, nor any real good or evil. Those are terms defined entirely by the context of whatever society we happen to find ourselves in at the moment.

So get out there and do what you need to do. Purge the cute little arctic seal pup looking race, enslave the Amazon Women on the Moon. For in a struggle like ours, morality, like history, is written by the victor!

 

[Gobsmaka]

When you are a spiritualist, collectivisist, militarist empire lead by Tom cruise

 

[Aquilegia]

When I started colonising 5% habitability planets, and then accidentally modified them to be enduring and communal, but forgot to change to tundra preference. Leaving them unable to be modified again to their wanted preference and getting them stuck on horrible planets.

Not genetically modifying some pops on a less habitability planet to see if they come up with something interesting if they would genetically engineer themselves.

Letting the Marin pollen plant go on unchecked, because I had won anyway, playing on 'very fast' speed in the end game (1 day/second) just to see the latest possible techs. Not wishing to bother assigning a scientist to a vessel and sending them all over the galaxy to save them.

Genetically modifying evil, purging, conquered species to remove decadent.

Uplifting a primitive species, finding out that they are 'fiercely territorial' and 'repugnant' and 'fast breeders', giving a massive happiness malus against other species on the same planet. Genetically engineer them to be communal, building hyper-entertainment fora on their planet, to ensure a permanent 100% happiness so they will never think of leaving that one planet.

 

[tobias.mb]

Well, no matter what I play I always go with 1 point in Collectivist or Xenophobia, just so I can purge. And I purge everyone that annoys me (even own pops with wrong ethos). I once uplifted a species, then decided "nah my own pops can live just fine one that world" and proceded to purge them all.

Also have you ever gotten the "underground civilisation" event chain?
I decided to do a preemptive strike against them, and the event pop-ups after that told me that I had flooded their caves with nerve gas and sent my soldiers in to kill any remnant - women and children included.
Reading those event files actually made me feel a bit bad for those guys .
That's when I realised that I am probably a bigger menace to the galaxy, than the endgame crisis.

 

[Milten]

When I read Purge Faction description for the first time.
Alas AI is too passive, I've got -1000 threat modifier, but they still refuse to band up together and save all these penguins (and shrooms, and lizzards, and insects...) from me. Being a galactic threat is too peaceful, unless you take things in your own appendages.

 

[AG_Wittmann]

Wachting pre stellar civilizations in their reign of nuclear wars and purging them, when they survive it. Terraform desert to ocean or tropical to arctic, only because you have the power to do it. Your own species need continental worlds.

 

[AposDio]

Well, no matter what I play I always go with 1 point in Collectivist or Xenophobia, just so I can purge. And I purge everyone that annoys me (even own pops with wrong ethos). I once uplifted a species, then decided "nah my own pops can live just fine one that world" and proceded to purge them all.

Also have you ever gotten the "underground civilisation" event chain?
I decided to do a preemptive strike against them, and the event pop-ups after that told me that I had flooded their caves with nerve gas and sent my soldiers in to kill any remnant - women and children included.
Reading those event files actually made me feel a bit bad for those guys .
That's when I realised that I am probably a bigger menace to the galaxy, than the endgame crisis.

You can always change the 00_policies file at x/y/Stellaris/common/policies.

Find the line for "purge" and it has these subsequent lines for "purge_allowed_xenos_only".

valid = {
OR = {
has_ethic = "ethic_xenophobe"
has_ethic = "ethic_fanatic_xenophobe"
has_ethic = "ethic_collectivist"
has_ethic = "ethic_fanatic_collectivist"

Expand that to (for example how I have it, you can add whatever you want):

valid = {
OR = {
has_ethic = "ethic_xenophobe"
has_ethic = "ethic_fanatic_xenophobe"
has_ethic = "ethic_collectivist"
has_ethic = "ethic_fanatic_collectivist"
has_ethic = "ethic_fanatic_individualist"
has_ethic = "ethic_individualist"
has_ethic = "ethic_militarist"
has_ethic = "ethic_fanatic_militarist"
has_ethic = "ethic_materialist"
has_ethic = "ethic_fanatic_materialist"

I didn't see a reason why militarists, individualists and materialists wouldn't be subject to prejudices that would lead to purging. I still kept the happiness penalty for individualists though, because it emulates the whole "I know we have to do it, but are we doing the right thing?" philosophical dilemma that such a population would have.

 

[JesterHell]

... The entire galaxy allies against you because you're "genocidal". Honestly I think they are just jealous of my large empire.

I just had this happen to me, I won a war and purged some pops and the next thing I know everyone else is in an alliance, I mean what was I supposed to do, they started the it...

 

[Thixus]

When you realize you're hemmed in by fallen empires on all sides so you dismantle your alliance and enslave their pops(Thank you divine mandate) just to get the fleet power to fight them.

 

[rutger9]

... you decided the Orbital Mind Control Laser is more valuable than solar panels on your stations...

Orbital mind control lasers in every space station i have.
having literally purged 60 pops from a single race cause "hydra wants more space"
45% of your empire being slaves the other 55% being your own species.
The only people that dont have a -1000 with you are your vassals... they just have a -80 genocidal.

Being evil is the greatest fun in this game.

 

[DaveyDave]

The name of your Empire is "The Pandemic Hegemony."

 

[SolarGuy]

When you play a pacifistic-individualistic species that peacefully coexists with everyone around it, while you use your influence points solely for the purpose of making your Chancellor rule for 20 years. So she can (after getting the Ancient Shrine event chain and choosing the Religious Renaissance option) then turn the Direct Democracy into a Divine Mandate, declare herself God-Empress and start enslaving the whole galaxy.
They said "Religious Renaissance", but it was never specified wether it should be within my empire or the whole galaxy

 

[ElFitz]

When instead of building an observation station in the orbit of this pre-Space civilization's planet... I just bomb them all to death from orbit.

Fun thing, none of those annoying Xenophile Pacifists give a damn !

 

[Naelar]

... When I get mad that someone is purging pops I want to purge.

 

[TheShah]

when my fanatic evangelical zealots willingly sign the Shroud Covenant to bring about the End Days of Judgement. And to crush the Benevolent Intervention who awakened in response to our unstoppable star crusade

and when we gloat in puritanical satisfaction when it all goes to not-so-proverbial Hell.

 

[Ultimuh]

..when you listen to the 'Imperial March' theme from Star Wars while playing this game.

 

[Sheriff Godwin Law]

I realized I was evil when I slaughtered an entire race of xenos to replace them with robots, then granted those robots sentience just to enslave them.

 

[Riftwalker]

when you have the 2 slave factions in your empire come out to way more than your native population total.

 

[Sheriff Godwin Law]

I sense this could be a bit. Lets try it out.

You might be an evil empire if... The Enigmatic Observers declare themselves Guardians of the Galaxy and cite you as the reason.

You might be an evil empire if... after you rival a fanatic purifier, he's invited into the Just Compact.

If you can sort your race screen by flavor profile... you might be an evil empire.

If your fanatic collectivists are immigrating to an empire where they can be free... you might be an evil empire.

You might be an evil empire if... after you see the population on your mining world is at 0 happiness, you delete all their food buildings.

 

[YagabodooN]

When you look at your opinion modifier for another empire and 'threat' is maxed out at -1000