Number of machines producing

[Zomis]

An important factor that will determine how fast you are is: How fast can you get your machines up and running?

Check for some of the options of https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/defines.html#defines.entity_status to determine functional/not-functional machines.

Maybe some players don't want their machines to be on "output full" because that means that they are overproducing?

Either way, at first check for things like "X machines producing iron ore at "