in v0.12 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7081 (by @luke-jr) was merged adding `-bytespersigop` (with default of 20).

this is preventing simple bare multisig transactions from being accepted into mempool when the size is < 400 bytes.  
eg; https://gist.github.com/rubensayshi/ac4f617207f7a50559e85d61c05800be

from 1-of-7 and onwards they are accepted because the ratio of bytes:sigops is high enough.  
also having 2 or more inputs will work because it again tips the ratio of bytes:sigops over.

the reason mainly being that `GetLegacySigOpCount` calls `GetSigOpCount` with `fAccurate=false`.

It looks like changing `GetLegacySigOpCount` to use `fAccurate=true` would cause side effects in the few other places (`ConnectBlock`, `CheckBlock`, `CreateNewBlock`) and simply adding `fAccurate` as arg to `GetLegacySigOpCount` would affect the value stored in `CTxMemPoolEntry.sigOpCount` which in turn affects a bunch of other things.

{
    LOCK(cs_main);
    if (chainActive.Tip() == NULL || chainActive.Tip()->pprev == NULL)
        return true;
    
    if (nCheckDepth <= 0)
        nCheckDepth = 1000000000; 
    if (nCheckDepth > chainActive.Height())
        nCheckDepth = chainActive.Height();
    nCheckLevel = std::max(0, std::min(4, nCheckLevel));
    LogPrintf("Verifying last %i blocks at level %i\n", nCheckDepth, nCheckLevel);
    CCoinsViewCache coins(coinsview);
    CBlockIndex* pindexState = chainActive.Tip();
    CBlockIndex* pindexFailure = NULL;
    int nGoodTransactions = 0;
    CValidationState state;
    int reportDone = 0;
    LogPrintf("[0%]...");
    for (CBlockIndex* pindex = chainActive.Tip(); pindex && pindex->pprev; pindex = pindex->pprev)
    {
        boost::this_thread::interruption_point();
        int percentageDone = std::max(1, std::min(99, (int)(((double)(chainActive.Height() - pindex->nHeight)) / (double)nCheckDepth * (nCheckLevel >= 4 ? 50 : 100))));
        if (reportDone < percentageDone/10) {
            
            LogPrintf("[%d%%]...", percentageDone);
            reportDone = percentageDone/10;
        }
        uiInterface.ShowProgress(_("Verifying blocks..."), percentageDone);