from: http://www.swtor.com/blog/community-qa-friday-march-30th-2012-game-update-1.2-special
Dear Bioware:
If any of that information flashing red on my screen was important, then I must be missing a lot, because I can never read it anyway. In wow, I scale the error frame down and move it up and to the side, so if I need to read it, I know where it is, but it isn't blocking my view when I already know what it's saying.
I also have about 5 years coding experience in Java, C++, C#, C, and various scripting languages, and I've worked on games before. If it's really this hard for you to add the option to move the error frame to the already existing ui modification system, then your coders have not been following best practices (maybe that's also why the game hogs so many resources with not a lot to show for it).
Please just give the player control, you can leave the default right where it is for new players to see the "fairly vital information".
Thanks for reading,
Ted Kent