diff --git a/polymer/eduke32/source/lunatic/doc/lunacon.txt b/polymer/eduke32/source/lunatic/doc/lunacon.txt
index c4dc4d9e9..54de10c7f 100644
--- a/polymer/eduke32/source/lunatic/doc/lunacon.txt
+++ b/polymer/eduke32/source/lunatic/doc/lunacon.txt
@@ -127,8 +127,9 @@ one.
 When enabled, produces an error whenever a global or per-player gamevar is
 attempted to be read using ++getactorvar++. Otherwise, a warning is emitted. In
 this case, the generated code is either a read of the (global) gamevar, or an
-access of the per-player gamevar with an actor index, which is probably not
-what the coder intended.
+access of the per-player gamevar with the given index or the current player
+index (depending on `-fbad-getactorvar-use-pli`), which is probably not what
+the coder intended.
 
 `-Wnot-redefined` (default: on)::
 Warns whenever a `define` directive was ignored because it attempted to
@@ -167,6 +168,12 @@ If enabled, an attempt to call a `state` that was not previously defined
 results in an error. Otherwise, a warning is issued and no code is generated
 for the `state` invocation.
 
+`-fbad-getactorvar-use-pli` (default: off)::
+If enabled and `-Werror-bad-getactorvar` is off, a `getactorvar` of a
+per-player variable will result the gamevar being indexed with the current
+player instead of the provided index. This is the (probably unintended)
+behavior of C-CON.
+
 `-fplayervar` (default: on)::
 If enabled, per-player `gamevar` definitions really generate `con.playervar`
 initializations in the translated Lua code. Otherwise, per-player gamevars are
diff --git a/polymer/eduke32/source/lunatic/lunacon.lua b/polymer/eduke32/source/lunatic/lunacon.lua
index 835ece51d..84deea677 100644
--- a/polymer/eduke32/source/lunatic/lunacon.lua
+++ b/polymer/eduke32/source/lunatic/lunacon.lua
@@ -124,7 +124,8 @@ local g_warn = { ["not-redefined"]=true, ["bad-identifier"]=false,
 -- Code generation and output options.
 local g_cgopt = { ["no"]=false, ["debug-lineinfo"]=false, ["gendir"]=nil,
                   ["cache-sap"]=false, ["error-nostate"]=true,
-                  ["playervar"]=true, ["trapv"]=false, ["wrapv"]=false, }
+                  ["playervar"]=true, ["trapv"]=false, ["wrapv"]=false,
+                  ["bad-getactorvar-use-pli"]=false, }
 
 local function csapp() return g_cgopt["cache-sap"] end
 
@@ -690,10 +691,10 @@ local function parse_number(pos, numstr)
             num = NaN
         end
     elseif (num >= 0x80000000) then
-        if (not hex and g_warn["number-conversion"]) then
-            pwarnprintf(pos, "number %s converted to a negative one", numstr)
-        end
         num = bit.tobit(num)
+        if (not hex and g_warn["number-conversion"]) then
+            pwarnprintf(pos, "number %s converted to %d", numstr, num)
+        end
     end
 
 --    printf("numstr:%s, num=%d (0x%s) '%s', resnum=%d (0x%s)",
@@ -2075,6 +2076,14 @@ local function GetOrSetPerxvarCmd(Setp, Actorp)
             local xprintf = warnp and warnprintf or errprintf
 
             xprintf("gamevar `%s' is not per-%s", perxvarname, Actorp and "actor" or "player")
+
+            if (warnp and bit.band(gv.flags, GVFLAG.PERX_MASK)==GVFLAG.PERPLAYER
+                    and g_cgopt["bad-getactorvar-use-pli"]) then
+                -- For getactorvar[] accesses to per-player gamevars, if
+                -- -fbad-getactorvar-use-pli is provided, use current player
+                -- index, for compatibility with CON.
+                idx = "_pli"
+            end
         end
 
         if (not Actorp) then