Near Clipping Plane Affecting Rendering Massive Objects

I have been messing around with making a full scale space game for a little while, since before unity 5 came out. What I expected to happen when I adjusted the camera clipping planes was that when I adjusted the far one, I could see a farther or shorter distance. Then when I adjusted the near clipping distance it would adjust how close I can see an object. This worked perfectly in Unity 4, no matter how large, or far away this worked. But in Unity 5 when I make really really really big objects that are realllllllly far away I need to adjust the near clipping range to be a rather large value, around 1000, and have the far clipping range at the same value as it would have been in Unity 4. If I don't edit the near clipping range the objects don't render as if the far clipping range was too short. Why does this happen now in Unity 5?