Camera Raw synchronizes highlights and shadows not exactly

I use Camera Raw 8.1 to prepare various NEF-files for stitching to a panorama. It will become multirowpanoramas. Some of these files have a 80 percent of very light sky and some have 0 percent of sky. All files have been exposed manually and equally. Then I open all NEF-Files for one panorama together in Camera raw and select them all.
When I use shadows slider (= Tiefen in German) the effect on the files varies. In the files with much sky the dark earth is lightend considerabely. In the files with no sky the earth is lightened only very moderately. Using highlights-slider (= Hoehen in German) I get a similar problem.
This becomes a big problem, when I stitch these files together!
Why does that happen, and how can I avoid this problem?

The problem is not when I do slight adjustments in ACR but only when I do considerable adjustments. As you propose I save the developed NEF-files as 16-bit Tifs. Then I use Autopano pro to create LDR-Panos. I'm not interested in 360° Panos. If you want to see, what kind of panos I create look here: http://www.martinfranz-muenster.de/index-e.htmhttp:// You can imagine that I have to make sometimes considerable adjustments in ACR before stitching. I am a bit old-fashioned therefore I still avoid HDR-processing.
But I found out something very interesting this morning playing around with ACR: When I use the gradient curve (2nd window, in German: Gradationskurven) instead of the first window with an aperture as icon (in German: Grundeinstellungen):
Modifying these curve in a series of pictures with and without sky (as described above) results in linear adjustments or at least much more liner adjustments! That is what I was looking for!
So I will modify my workflow slightly: I do the first strong adjustments in ACR with the "gradient curve" and minor alterations in a second step with "basic settings" (Grundeinstellungen).
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