Can you edit one of the vanila multiplayer missions?

[kyfohatl 10]

I just wanted to know if you could edit the official multiplayer missions that come with vanila ARMA 2 to increase the number of player/AI slots so that you can have more people/AI on the map. I'm specifically looking at the missions: WHEN DIPLOMACY FAILS, WELCOME WAR and SUPERPOWERS (located in the creat new game in multiplayer under the name of the vanila ARMA 2 islands). I don't think that I have enough skill to creat a completely new mission like these ones as they require quite a lot of AI work (the AI commander needs to know which strategies to use, how to reacts, etc) and the usage of respawn points which I don't know how to. So my best way of having larger coop battles is to edit one of the already existing missions (though I play it as SP since my internet is crap).

Please help!

[weedman 10]

yes of course you can, just look for kegetys amazing cpbo tool or eliteness, browse to your mp missions folder and extract the pbo and re-locate the folder to arma 2/ missions in my documents. edit in the editor and then when finished pack it back up and put it back in your mp missions folder. voila enjoy

[kyfohatl 10]

Hi weedman, thanks for the reply but I'm a bit of a noob. Please explain a bit batter. I found the cpbo tool at http://www.kegetys.net/arma/ and the eliteness at http://www.ofpec.com/forum/index.php?topic=30814.0 but I can't figure out what it does. Also, my MP missions folder in my ARMA 2 root directory is empty. So say I want to edit the vanilla mission WHEN DIPLOMACY FAILS . How do I do it?

Thanls for your time.